Jeff Bezos inducted to the Logistics Hall of Fame in Berlin

• Colorful induction ceremony of Jeffrey Preston Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. com, to the Logistics Hall of Fame.
• Logistics sector honours the achievements of the U.S.-American Internet pioneer.
• Roy Perticucci, Vice President Amazon Europe Customer Fulfillment, accepts the certificate on behalf of Bezos at the German Federal Ministry of Transport in Berlin.

Ismaning near Munich/Berlin, 9.11.2017.    It's now official: on Thursday, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, was inducted into the world´s logistics pantheon. 170 international guests of honour from politics, science, industry and the media accepted the invitation of the Logistics Hall of Fame to celebrate the successful Internet pioneer in the historic Erich Klausener Hall of the German Transport Ministry in Berlin.

The guests, including Amazon management from Europe and Germany, accompanied Roy Perticucci, Vice President Amazon Europe Customer Fulfillment, with big applause, when he was presented the membership certificate made of glass and metal on behalf of Jeff Bezos. 

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer IML and himself a member of the Hall of Fame, gave a rousing laudatory speech to the new member. He paid tribute to Bezos' entrepreneurial performance, which not only reinvented Internet commerce and the media world through the combination of software and logistics, but also provided a blueprint for a new Logistics 4.0. Bezos thus joins the ranks of the big industrial visionaries such as Daimler, Siemens and Edison.

Jeff Bezos is the 33rd member of the logistics pantheon. He was elected in September by an international expert jury from a total of 17 candidates from eight countries. 

Members of the Logistics Hall of Fame include UPS founder James Casey, Fedex founder Frederick Smith, entrepreneur and logistics benefactor Klaus-Michael Kühne as well as the contract logistics pioneers Heinz Fiege and Hugo Fiege or Austrian logistics entrepreneur Heidi Senger-Weiss. Amoung others posthumously voted into the Hall of Fame include the post office founders of Thurn und Taxis, truck inventor Gottlieb Daimler, Gottfried Schenker as a pioneer of combined transportation, assembly line inventors Henry Ford and Ransom Eli Olds, Eugene Clark, the inventor of the forklift truck, Malcom McLean, father of containerisation, and Japanese Toyota manager Taiichi Ohno, who invented the just in time-concept.

The initiative is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Transport as well as the relevant sector associations, media and companies, including the Port of Duisburg (duisport), Gebrüder Weiss, logistics insurer Kravag, intralogistics provider Still, the Federal Central Cooperative for Road Transport (SVG) and the TimoCom freight exchange.

The Hall can be accessed free of charge at any time at www.logisticshalloffame.net and features information and photos on logistics milestones and the people behind them. 

Roy Perticucci, Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe nimmt die Mitgliederurkunde stellvertretend für Jeff Bezos in Empfang.

(vl.) Dr. Henry Puhl, Chairman of the Executive Board, Still, Anita Würmser, Jury-Vorsitzende der Logistics Hall of Fame, Roy Perticucci, Laudator Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael ten Hompel, Geschäftsführender Institutsleiter am Fraunhofer IML. Parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Dorothee Bär MdB, Prof. Dr. Uwe Clausen, Director of the Fraunhofer IML Institute

 

Roy Perticucci, Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe receives the membership certificate on behalf of Jeff Bezos.

(from left: Dr. Henry Puhl, Chairman of the Executive Board, Still, Anita Würmser, jury chairwoman of the Logistics Hall of Fame, Roy Perticucci, laudatory speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer IML, Parliamentary State Secretary Dorothee Bär MdB, Prof. Dr. Uwe Clausen, Director of the Fraunhofer IML Institute.)

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

 

 

Das Netzwerk der Logistics Hall of Fame: Mitglieder, Jury, Unterstützer.

The network of the Logistics Hall of Fame: members, jury, supporters.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

 

Roy Perticucci, Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe nimmt die Mitgliederurkunde stellvertretend für Jeff Bezos in Empfang.

Roy Perticucci, Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe receives the membership certificate on behalf of Jeff Bezos.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

 

Die Mitgliederurkunde der Logistics Hall of Fame.

The membership certificate of the Logistics Hall of Fame.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

Roy Perticucci (l.), Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe mit Laudator Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael ten Hompel, Geschäftsführender Institutsleiter am Fraunhofer IML. 

Roy Perticucci (l.), Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe and laudatory speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer IML.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

 

Laudator Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael ten Hompel, Geschäftsführender Institutsleiter am Fraunhofer IML und selbst Mitglied der Logistics Hall of Fame.

Laudatory speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer IML and himself member of the Logistics Hall of Fame.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

Roy Perticucci, Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe nimmt die Mitgliederurkunde stellvertretend für Jeff Bezos in Empfang.

(vl.) Dr. Henry Puhl, Chairman of the Executive Board, Still, Anita Würmser, Jury-Vorsitzende der Logistics Hall of Fame, Roy Perticucci, Laudator Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael ten Hompel, Geschäftsführender Institutsleiter am Fraunhofer IML. Parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Dorothee Bär MdB, Prof. Dr. Uwe Clausen, Director of the Fraunhofer IML Institute

 

Roy Perticucci, Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe receives the membership certificate on behalf of Jeff Bezos.

(from left: Dr. Henry Puhl, Chairman of the Executive Board, Still, Anita Würmser, jury chairwoman of the Logistics Hall of Fame, Roy Perticucci, laudatory speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer IML, Parliamentary State Secretary Dorothee Bär MdB, Prof. Dr. Uwe Clausen, Director of the Fraunhofer IML Institute.)

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

 

 

Das Netzwerk der Logistics Hall of Fame: Mitglieder, Jury, Unterstützer.

The network of the Logistics Hall of Fame: members, jury, supporters.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

 

Roy Perticucci, Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe nimmt die Mitgliederurkunde stellvertretend für Jeff Bezos in Empfang.

Roy Perticucci, Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe receives the membership certificate on behalf of Jeff Bezos.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

 

Die Mitgliederurkunde der Logistics Hall of Fame.

The membership certificate of the Logistics Hall of Fame.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

Roy Perticucci (l.), Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe mit Laudator Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael ten Hompel, Geschäftsführender Institutsleiter am Fraunhofer IML. 

Roy Perticucci (l.), Amazon Vice President Fulfillment Europe and laudatory speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer IML.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

 

Laudator Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael ten Hompel, Geschäftsführender Institutsleiter am Fraunhofer IML und selbst Mitglied der Logistics Hall of Fame.

Laudatory speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer IML and himself member of the Logistics Hall of Fame.

Photos: Logistics Hall of Fame / Gabsch

Printable photos of all members: http://www.logisticshalloffame.net/en/press/press-photos/mitglieder

Background: 

The Logistics Hall of Fame was founded in 2003 and honours leading figures who have made outstanding efforts to promote the further development of logistics and supply chain management. This eternal pantheon is also designed to remind future generations of the achievements of these individuals in the service of logistics. The aim of the Logistics Hall of Fame is to act as a worldwide platform to publicise the performance capability of logistics and its importance for society. The Logistics Hall of Fame is a non-profit initiative supported by the world of politics, associations, the logistics industry and logistics science. The patron is the Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI).

Supporters of the Logistics Hall of Fame:

Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI)

German Association of Road Haulage, Logistics and Disposal (BGL)

German Association Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (BME)

German Association for Business, Transport and Logistics (BWVL)

Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL)

Business+Logistic

DVV Media Group, Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung (DVZ)

Association of German Freight Forwarders and Logistics Operators (DSLV)

Deutsches Verkehrsforum (DVF)

International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA)

International Road Transport Union (IRU)

Port of Duisburg (duisport)

Gebrüder Weiss

Kravag

Lebensmittel Zeitung

LOGISTIK-Kurier

LT-manager

Still 

Federal Central Cooperative for Road Transport (SVG)

TimoCom

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