U-Freight Restructures North America Operations
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We will be able to streamline our corporate structure, enhance various business processes such as sales, accounting and information systems, save costs, strengthen our company culture and improve customer service.” Adds Rick Keller: “Working together, we will build an organization that will operate without artificial boundaries and allow us to offer even better services to customers.” ### Hong Kong, China, July 04, 2007 --( PR.com )-- Following his transfer from his position as U-Freight’s General Manager in Europe, Rick Keller is now President and CEO of U-Freight America Inc, based in San Francisco.Prior to that, he was station manager atU-Freight’s Chicago office, so his appointment marks a return to North America.Anna Lok is in her 20th year with U-Freight having joined the company after graduation.Most recently, she was Vice-President, Logistics, targeting new business for shippers requiring customised solutions for their total supply chain management requirements.When U-Freight America was originally established in 1979, Keeven Sze became the second employee on the company’s payroll and cut its first airway bill out of the USA.They bring more than 100 years of combined experience to the company’s Cooperative Regional Strategy for North America which is now being implemented.That strategy will see U-Freight consolidate its operational activities at a number of stations in Canada and the USA, with each station ceasing to operate as an individual profit centres and being managed as a coherent network to better serve the needs of customers and to take advantage of current market trends.Staff are being assigned to specific roles within the company’s airfreight, oceanfreight and logistics product lines with all sales activity centrally directed.The new sales team covers the whole of North America including Canada, allowing leads to be managed by the same team member, regardless of shipment lane or product line.Monitoring and problem-solving has been divided into East and West Coast sectors, giving customers a more centralised point of reference for any queries, in two different US time-zones.Comments Simon Wong, Chief Executive Officer of U-Freight Group: “U-Freight has always had a firm belief in promoting from within and I am very pleased that we have been able to create a very strong executive management team in North America from within our own resources.“Given their collective experience, I’m sure that they are more than capable of driving forward our organization in North America.We will be able to streamline our corporate structure, enhance various business processes such as sales, accounting and information systems, save costs, strengthen our company culture and improve customer service.”Adds Rick Keller: “Working together, we will build an organization that will operate without artificial boundaries and allow us to offer even better services to customers.”### Contact Information UFreight Ian Matheson ++44 (0)1689 860660 www.ufreight.com Click here to view the list of recent Press Releases from UFreight Promote Your Business Press Release Pricing Email this page to a friend