Post-crisis resumption warms up businesses in logistics sector
DCI
The reheating of the industry reflects in the businesses of the logistics companies leading to the opening of new contracts throughout 2009. Yesterday, Julio Simões Logística announced another operation for Suzano Papel e Celulose, as it took over the internal operations at the headquarters of the company, which should be extended to the five plants of the contracting company until the end of the year. Julio Simões foresees that the new works achieved this year will contribute with an increase of 15% in the profits. The French company ID Logistics, at its turn, acquired part of the operations of Nadir Figueiredo, after having taking over clients like AmBev, Casa Show and Danone. With that, the operator expects a 20% growth still in 2009.
In relation to the project of Júlio Simões, it will be necessary to invest nearly R$ 18 million (US$ 9.73 million) in equipment and infrastructure, besides manpower, in order to fully perform the new operation. "It is a client to whom we used to carry raw material to the plant and also the finished product. By taking over the internal transportation of the manufacturing plants, we closed a complete logistic cycle", explained Irecê Andrade, Commercial Officer of Júlio Simões Logística to DCI. The new activities for Suzano will start at the company headquarters, in the city it is named after, in the State of São Paulo, going, later, to the plants of Rio Verde, also in Suzano, to the plants of Embu and Limeira, in São Paulo, and to the plant of Mucuri, in the State of Bahia.
In 2009, Júlio Simões also started providing services to companies of the sugar and alcohol sector and included in its portfolio clients like Cosan and Brenco. The Júlio Simões Group had earnings of R$ 2.3 billion (US$ 1.26 billion) in 2008. It also operates in the area of car dealerships - they are more than 20 Volkswagen dealerships, besides the outsourcing of fleets and urban cleaning services. In other segments, it caters to clients like MMX, Vale, Cummins and General Motors.
Specialized in technology for the management of storage in distribution centers, the European ID Logistics announces its fourth contract of the year to render services to companies in the Country. With that, it should achieve, around here, nearly R$ 90 millions (US$ 48.6 million) in earnings in 2009. Now ID starts taking care of the management of the stocks, reception of the cargo and internal operation of the Nadir Figueiredo plant in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. This year, ID acquired operations with AmBev, Casa Show and Danone, but it already rendered services in Brazil to corporations like Carrefour, Leroy Merlin, ArvinMeritor and Chevron Texaco. Brazil is already the second largest operation of ID Logistics in the world, and the group has 63 units, divided among more than 1.5 million square meters of stocks spread through four continents. The global earnings of the company achieved R$ 930 million (US$ 508.2 million) last year.