Description Nippon Express is a worldwide leader in logistics services. Its head office is based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was established in 1937 in line with the Nippon Tsu-un Kaisha Law as a semi-government transportation service. Nippon Express annual revenues exceed $14 billion USD. Nippon Express has a strong global network that spans over...

Description Florensis provides professional growers with plant propagation material and solutions since 1941. The company’s extensive line of plants propagated from both seed and cuttings consists of summer-flowering annuals, Viola, Primula, biennial and perennial crops and pot plants such as Cyclamen. The company’s three locations in other countries – Kenya, Ethiopia and Portugal – make...

Description Albert Boehringer started producing tartaric acid back in 1885 in a small factory in Ingelheim, close to the German city of Mainz. Now, over a century later, Boehringer Ingelheim is a major pharmaceutical company generating an annual turnover of more than 13 billion euros. Despite employing 44,000 people worldwide, Boehringer Ingelheim remains a family-owned...

Description PostNL is a mail, parcel and e-commerce corporation with operations in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Formerly a subsidiary of TNT N.V., it became an independent company upon TNT's demerger in May 2011. Opportunities The coming years PostNL will dismiss thousands of fulltime mailmen, and replace them through part-time post delivery employees. It...

Description As one of the world’s leading specialty biopharma-ceutical companies, Shire is organized into three divisions: Specialty, Human Genetic Therapies, and Regenerative Medicine. Opportunities Since Shire’s formation just over 25 years ago, they have become one of the world’s leading specialty biopharmaceutical companies. Given this growth path, Shire is in the process of preparing its international supply...

Description Waterlab Zuid in Breda is owned and exploited by the drinkwater supply company Brabant Water. Its task is to monitor on a daily bases the quality (biological and/or biochemical) of the surface waters in ditches, fens and canals in the province Noord Brabant. Opportunities Waterlab Zuid needed a larger building to facilitate the laboratory activities....

Description Yamaha Motor Europe is the industry leader in developing, manufacturing and distributing motor cycles, scooters, ATV’s, marine products, power equipment and snow mobiles. Opportunities Yamaha Motors Europe was committed to improve their supply chain in terms of performance and costs for the distribution of their full product range in Europe. A new supply chain concept...

Description Voridian, an operating division of Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN), is the world’s largest manufacturer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for packaging and a global leader in the manufacturing of acetate tow. Voridian currently runs several factories, warehouses and stock holding points in Europe. Opportunities Voridian wanted to know if the performance of its European supply chain...

Description VistaPrint is a leading company that provides low-cost printing services and web-enabled design systems. VistaPrint offers its customers the ability to buy printing over the internet. The company is specialized in printing small orders of hundred to two hundred pieces. Opportunities Until 2003 the European customers were served from the manufacturing facilities in the USA....

Description UPC NL is a leading provider of television, broadband internet and telephony services in the Netherlands. For television, UPC NL has 2.2 Mio customer contracts. As part of a national roll-out of digital television, (operational) implementation support was requested to smoothen the design, implementation and start up of the outsourcing of the logistic processes...