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Operational excellence
We bring operational best practices, tools and benchmarks from our long-term experience to elevate performance and customer satisfaction.
CAPITAL - EXPERTISE - FAMILY VALUES
We partner with family-owned logistics companies.
Logistics Family Partners supports family entrepreneurs in strengthening and securing the long-term future of their businesses. Our team combines more than 50 years in logistics and business building, including first-hand experience of family succession.
About us
From one family business to another.
Logistics Family Partners is a partner to family-owned logistics companies. We provide capital and operational expertise. We become relevant when ownership, strategic ambition, day-to-day operational reality and financial performance need to be realigned and improved.
Coming from a family-owned logistics business ourselves, we have first-hand experienced and successfully navigated succession and growth challenges, as well as transformations, first-hand. Over the years, we have supported other family entrepreneurs facing similar situations and created lasting value together — through operational performance improvements, digitalisation and AI, the development of new growth opportunities, stronger organisational structures, successful generational transitions, and more.
We invest to preserve, develop and grow. A family name on the door is an asset we intend to protect.
Who we partner with
We partner with medium sized family-owned logistics companies headquartered in Europe.
Geographies
Revenue range
EUR 40–300M
Profile preference
Our sweet spot is diversified logistics businesses with operations across multiple geographies and service lines — from freight forwarding and contract logistics to terminals and specialised transport.
Partnership
Where and how do we act as your partner?
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Commercial development
With more than 50 years of experience in business and sales pipeline development, service pricing and customer contract negotiations, we know the commercial details that determine profitability and growth in logistics.
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Professionalisation of the organisation
We advise on clear structures, financial reporting standards and corporate governance that enable management and shareholders to steer the company with confidence.
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Talent network
In close dialogue with the family, we use our longstanding network to bring in talent that adds expertise and helps develop the business.
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Automation and AI implementation
Through close relationships with leading AI solutions in logistics, we support the selection and implementation of the right tools to unlock growth and efficiency.
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Performance improvement & turnaround
Logistics can be cyclical and affected by global events. We bring hands-on restructuring expertise to protect the core and prepare the team for future growth.
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Accelerated growth & capital
We source, execute and integrate acquisitions to expand geographic reach, gain new clients and enter new fields of business, backed by committed capital for the journey.
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Succession support & structures
We know that one size does not fit all. We tailor ownership solutions to each partnership and respect the family’s intent, including full, partial and staggered transitions with different levels of involvement.
Team
The people behind the promise:
Managing Partner
Etienne spent close to ten years in mid-cap private equity at Waterland, one of Europe’s most active mid-cap investors, where he acquired multiple family-owned companies and worked alongside their founders to improve performance, strengthen governance and drive long-term growth. Prior to that, he worked at Bain & Company, focusing on value creation and strategy, as well as at Morgan Stanley in M&A. He studied financial economics at the University of Oxford. Outside of work, Etienne is a passionate cook.
Managing Partner
Jochen brings decades of executive experience in logistics, including as global C-Level roles at CEVA Logistics and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics. He has also held senior leadership roles at Forto and UTi Worldwide, and over the years has built an exceptionally broad international network across logistics companies, customers and industry executives. Jochen is a trained mechanical engineer and serves on the boards of multiple logistics companies as well as logistics tech startups in Europe and overseas. Away from work, he is a passionate sailor.
Managing Partner
Anne grew up in a family’s logistics business and represents its third generation, with first-hand experience of succession, ownership responsibility and developing family enterprises. Prior she led Investor Relations at Project A, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms. Anne is also a systemic coach, with a strong understanding of corporate cultures as well as executive coaching. She studied business and economics at the European Business School and the London School of Economics. Outside of work, she is passionate about arts and culture.
