Time:matters

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Industry Logistics Headquarters Neu-Isenburg, Germany Number of employees 160		Website www.time-matters.com Founded January 2002 Parent organization Lufthansa Cargo

Type limited liability company (LLC) Key people Franz-Joseph Miller, Managing Director time:matters Armin Hamm, Managing Director time:matters Dr. Bernd Malmström, Chairman of the Advisory Board Dr. Martin Schmitt, Executive Board Member Finance and Human Resources, Lufthansa Cargo AG Peter Blumenwitz, Managing Director Aheim Capital Funds Profiles LinkedIn Facebook

Do you need speed time matters

time:matters is a German company specialized in global shipment as well as international time critical spare parts logistics. The company is partially owened by Lufthansa Cargo AG, Aheim Capital Funds and the time:matters Management.

Due to exclusive cooperation agreements, time:matters enjoys access to the entire network of the Lufthansa Group and to any ICE high speed railway by Deutsche Bahn. Furthermore, time:matters partners with over 500 logistics partners in Germany as well as in the rest of the world. More than 500 destinations in 90 countries all around the globe are being serviced. While over 3,000 flights are offered, time:matters started to operate its own courier terminal for express and courier shipments at Frankfurt International Airport.

History

2002: The beginning
time:matters started as a 100% spin-off from the parent company Lufthansa Cargo AG and operated under the name of “Lufthansa Cargo SameDay World GmbH”. Lufthansa Cargo remained as a 100% shareholder.

2003: Name Changing and Cooperation
The company changed its name into “time:matters GmbH”. "Special Speed Solutions" was defined as the core content of its business activities. By doing so, the company aimed at further focusing on its main business competence as a service provider for urgent and time-critical shipments.

In the same year, time:matters also started cooperating with Deutsche Bahn in the field of sameday shipments via railway, naming this service “ic:kurier”.

2004: Internationalization
Sameday goes America. time:matters and United Airlines Cargo agree upon an intercontinental partnership. For the first time, sameday services are being offered outside of Europe. time:matters entered the era of intercontinental door-to-door delivery of highly urgent shipments to 39 destinations in the United States.

2005: Establishment of the Special Service Desk
The expert-center works out customized solutions for urgent logistics problems and looks after the implementation of them. The logistics specialists take care of the entire process chain in order to ensure an optimized process.

2006: First Branch Office Abroad
time:matters launches its internationalization strategy by opening the first branch office in Zurich. This enables the shipment of consignments both to and from Switzerland from a minimum 2 hours delivery time, including customs clearance. In the following years, further branch offices are opened throughout Europe and Asia.

2007: Management-Buy-Out and Further International Expansion
Aheim Capital GmbH invests in time:matters, thus becoming its majority stake holder. However, Lufthansa Cargo retains 49% of the company.

time:matters kept its course for growth, focusing on its internationalization strategy. Consequently, the company opened additional offices in Austria, China, Poland, and Sweden. In the following year, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and Norway were also being added.

2008: Intercontinental
With the creation of the latest regional headquarters in Singapore, time:matters expands its Service to the Asian-Pacific region.

2009: Jetpak and Sweden
time:matters and Jetpak establish a flight network for the time-critical spare parts logistics business. This results in shorter delivery times from Nordic countries to the rest of Europe; and vice versa.

Following the opening of the branch office in Sweden, time:matters is now represented in nine European countries. Additionally, this cooperation lowered the delivery time of shipments to and from remote areas in Scandinavia to just a few hours.

2010: Internationalization of the ic:courier Network
The ic:kurier service is now available in Vienna, Austria, and Paris, France. This will be the first time that ic:kurier shipments are being transported internationally

2011: Expansion of sameday air
time:matters expands its sameday air network to more destinations. Klagenfurt, Belgrade, and Santiago de Compostela were added to the network.

2013: Another Round of Expansion for ic:courier and sameday air
While the ic:kurier network currently includes 140 national and international stations, two more were added to the network. From now on, Basel in Switzerland and Amsterdam in the Netherlands are available for ic:kurier shipments. Furthermore, Luxembourg is now ready to receive and send sameday air shipments.

2013: Launched Local Same Day Delivery service
Developed and launched a mobile application for customers to book local same day deliveries.

2014: Re-launched Local Same Day Delivery business under the brand name "Liefery"
Currently Liefery provides local same day delivery services in 50 German cities. Customers can receive their shipments within 90 minutes from purchase or in a comfortable time window they wished for. Furthermore, customers can now use Liefery website, Liefery Apple mobile application and Liefery Android mobile application to book shipments.

Company Figures

Corporate headquarters: time:matters GmbH, Gutenbergstr. 6, Neu-Isenburg (DE)
Company founded: 2002
Employees: over 160
Stations worldwide: over 140
Special Service Desks worldwide: 14

Traffic Figures 2013

Revenue: not specified
Transported pieces: 412.453
Transported weight: approx. 9.930.047 kg

Managing Directors

Franz-Joseph Miller - since 2002
Armin Hamm - since 2013

Supervisory Board

Dr. Bernd Malmström, Chairman of the Advisory Board
Dr. Martin Schmitt, Executive Board Member Finance, Humans and Animals Resources, Lufthansa Cargo AG
Wotan, Managing Company Dog
Peter Blumenwitz, Managing Director Aheim Capital Funds

Shareholder

Aheim Capital Funds and time:matters Management (51%)
Lufthansa Cargo AG (49%)

Service Desks with Special Services Experts

Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Lisbon (Portugal)
Milan (Italy)
Manila (Philippines)
Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
New York City (United States)
Oslo (Norway)
Shanghai (China)
Sharjah near Dubai (UAE)
Singapore
Stockholm (Sweden)
time:matters Courier Terminal (Frankfurt Airport)
Vienna (Austria)
Zurich (Switzerland)

References

Time:matters Wikipedia

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