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Kuehne + Nagel International AG (or Kühne + Nagel) is a global transport and logistics company based in Schindellegi, Switzerland. [2] Its main owner and operator is Klaus-Michael Kühne via his Kühne Holding and Kühne Foundation. The company was founded in 1890 in Bremen, Germany. [3]
In 1981, the year of his father's death, he had to sell 50% percent of the company for 90 million Deutsche Marks to the former Lorho group. He bought the company back for 340 million marks in 1992, and put the Kühne + Nagel Agency on the stock market in 1994. [9] He became CEO of the company in 1996.
Alfred Kühne was born in Bremen on 14 April 1895, and took over control and ownership of Kuehne + Nagel on his father's death in 1932. [2] Kühne died in Lenzerheide, Switzerland on 16 October 1981. Control of the company then passed to his only child, Klaus-Michael Kühne. [2]
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Friedrich Gottlieb Nagel (1864-1907) was the co-founder of Kuehne + Nagel, the global transportation and logistics company. Nagel co-founded Kuehne + Nagel with August Kühne (1855-1932) in Bremen in 1890.
In 2006, S&N entered into a joint venture with the Swiss-based freight company, Kuehne and Nagel to set up a UK drinks distribution company (K+N Drinks Logistics). Some 3,000 S&N employees transferred to the new business. [14]
Kühne & Nagel: 8 Giovanni Ferrero: 38.9 billion 57 Italy: Ferrero: 9 Mark Mateschitz: 34.7 billion 30 Austria: Red Bull: 10= Alain Wertheimer: 31.6 billion 72 France: Chanel: 10= Gerard Wertheimer: 31.6 billion 72 France: Chanel: 11= Gianluigi Aponte: 31.2 billion 82 Switzerland: Mediterranean Shipping Company: 11= Rafaela Aponte-Diamant: 31.2 ...