Logistics Plus Receives Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2020 Recognition

Logistics Plus Receives Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2020 Recognition

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Logistics Plus Receives Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2020 Recognition

Majority of employees see professional growth and career opportunities.

Inc. Best Workplaces 2020 - Standard LogoERIE, PA (May 6, 2020) – Logistics Plus Inc. (LP), a leading worldwide provider of transportation, logistics and supply chain solutions, is proud to announce that it has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual list of the Best Workplaces for 2020. In anonymous surveys, employee engagement was over 96%, and “challenging” was cited as the top word to describe the company’s work environment. 82% of men and 85% of women in the company see professional and career development opportunities for themselves.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has made this an incredibly challenging year,” said Jim Berlin, founder and CEO of Logistics Plus. “The world has changed and is changing before our eyes, but LP has stayed strong with our employees playing essential roles in helping keep supply chains together, here and around the world. It’s been a true testament to the talent, tenacity, creativity and resourcefulness of our people. I am so proud. Proud of them all.”

Collecting data from more than 2,500 submissions, Inc. singled out 389 finalists for this year’s list. Each nominated company took part in an employee survey, conducted by Quantum Workplace, on topics including trust, management effectiveness, perks, and confidence in the future. Inc. gathered, analyzed, and audited the data. Then we ranked all the employers using a composite score of survey results. The list will be included in the May/June 2020 issue of Inc. magazine and prominently featured on the Inc.com website.

Among all finalists on the list, Logistics Plus also had the distinction of being:

  • 1 of only 45 companies recognized in the large category (250-499 employees)
  • 1 of only 12 companies based in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • 1 of only 10 companies in the transportation and logistics industry
  • The only company based in Erie, Pennsylvania

You can view the Inc-verified Logistics profile online at www.inc.com/profile/logistics-plus and the full list of 2020 Inc. Best Workplaces at www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2020.html.

This is the first year that Logistics Plus has received the Inc. Best Workplace recognition. Last year, Logistics Plus was named the 54th best medium-sized workplace by Great Place to Work and Fortune magazine and has been certified as a Great Place to Work® company the past three years running.

About Logistics Plus Inc.

Logistics Plus Inc. provides freight transportation, warehousing, fulfillment, global logistics, business intelligence technology, and supply chain management solutions through a worldwide network of talented and caring professionals. The company was founded over 23 years ago in Erie, PA by local entrepreneur, Jim Berlin. Today, Logistics Plus is a highly-regarded fast-growing and award-winning transportation and logistics company. With a strong passion for excellence, its 450 global employees put the “plus” in logistics by doing the big things properly, and the countless little things, that together ensure complete customer satisfaction and success.

The Logistics Plus® network includes offices located in Erie, PA; Akron, OH; Baltimore, MD; Birmingham, AL; Buffalo, NY; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; Des Moines, IA; Detroit, MI; Fort Worth, TX; Haslet TX; Houston, TX; Laredo, TX; Lexington, NC; Los Angeles, CA; Melbourne, FL; Nashville, TN; New York, NY; Olean, NY; Ontario, CA; San Bernardino, CA; San Francisco, CA; Tampa Bay, FL; Australia; Bahrain; Belgium; Canada; China; Colombia; Czech Republic; Egypt; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Libya; Mexico; Netherlands; Poland; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Taiwan; Turkey; UAE; Ukraine; Uganda; and United Kingdom; with additional agents around the world. For more information, visit www.logisticsplus.com or follow @LogisticsPlus on Twitter.

Scott.Frederick-Audio3Media Contact:
Scott G. Frederick
Vice President, Marketing
Logistics Plus Inc.
(814) 240-6881
scott.frederick@logisticsplus.com

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Logistics Plus Receives Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2020 Recognition

Logistics Plus Re-Certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for Third Year

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Logistics Plus Re-Certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for Third Straight Year

In anonymous employee surveys, 96% percent say Logistics Plus continues to be a great workplace.

Great Place to Work Logo 2020-03ERIE, PA (March 10, 2020) – Logistics Plus Inc., a leading worldwide provider of transportation, logistics and supply chain solutions, is pleased to announce that it has been re-certified as a great workplace by the independent analysts at Great Place to Work®. This is the third consecutive year that the company has been certified. According to the updated results, Logistics Plus ratings in many key categories were better than the 2020 best-in-class benchmarks set by the top 100 businesses in the United States.

Using validated employee feedback gathered with Great Place to Work’s rigorous, data-driven “For All” methodology, Certification confirms that at least 7 out of 10 employees have a consistently positive experience. At Logistics Plus, 96 percent of its employees say it is a great workplace compared to the top 100 benchmark of 91 percent. Employees also rated Logistics Plus higher than best-in-class benchmarks across numerous other dimensions, including justice, impartiality, collaboration, equity, leadership behavior, innovation, and engagement.

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“I couldn’t be prouder that, with all of our growth the past few years, our employees continue to find Logistics Plus to be a great place to work,” said Jim Berlin, founder and CEO of Logistics Plus. “We have a passion for excellence and we’re always striving to grow. Growing is challenging but fun. Despite our growth, we still have very few rules other than ‘The Golden Rule.’ Treat people as you’d like to be treated … and make work fun, of course.”

The Logistics Plus Great Place to Work company profile and ratings summary can be viewed online at: https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7008084.

“We congratulate Logistics Plus, on their re-certification,” said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, Vice President of Best Workplace List Research at Great Place to Work. “Organizations that earn their employees’ trust create great workplace cultures that deliver outstanding business results.”

In addition to its Great Place to Work certification, Logistics Plus ranked number 54 among the top 100 list of medium-sized workplaces published last October by Fortune. Last week, its founder and CEO, Jim Berlin, was recognized with a prestigious “CEO Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award” at the 3rd annual Great Place to Work Leadership Awards Gala Dinner at the Four Seasons in San Francisco.

About Great Place to Work 

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, it has surveyed more than 100 million employees around the world and uses those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Great Place to Work helps organizations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Great Place to Work’s unparalleled benchmark data is used to recognize Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in the U.S. and more than 60 countries, including the 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World’s Best list published annually by Fortune. Everything it does is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work For All™. Learn more at greaplacetowork.com.

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About Logistics Plus Inc.

Logistics Plus Inc. provides freight transportation, warehousing, fulfillment, global logistics, business intelligence technology, and supply chain management solutions through a worldwide network of talented and caring professionals. The company was founded over 23 years ago in Erie, PA by local entrepreneur, Jim Berlin. Today, Logistics Plus is a highly-regarded fast-growing and award-winning transportation and logistics company. With a strong passion for excellence, its 450 global employees put the “plus” in logistics by doing the big things properly, and the countless little things, that together ensure complete customer satisfaction and success.

The Logistics Plus® network includes offices located in Erie, PA; Akron, OH; Baltimore, MD; Birmingham, AL; Buffalo, NY; Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; Des Moines, IA; Detroit, MI; Fort Worth, TX; Haslet TX; Houston, TX; Laredo, TX; Lexington, NC; Los Angeles, CA; Melbourne, FL; Nashville, TN; New York, NY; Olean, NY; Ontario, CA; San Bernardino, CA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Tampa Bay, FL; Australia; Bahrain; Belgium; Canada; China; Colombia; Czech Republic; Egypt; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Libya; Mexico; Netherlands; Poland; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Taiwan; Turkey; UAE; Ukraine; Uganda; and United Kingdom; with additional agents around the world. For more information, visit www.logisticsplus.com or follow @LogisticsPlus on Twitter.

Media Contact:
Scott G. Frederick
Vice President, Marketing
Logistics Plus Inc.
(814) 240-6881
scott.frederick@logisticsplus.com

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Jim’s Speech from the GPTW4ALL Awards Banquet

Jim’s Speech from the GPTW4ALL Awards Banquet

Jim-at-GPTW4ALLAs announced yesterday, Logistics Plus Inc was proud to announce that Jim Berlin, its founder and CEO, was recognized Tuesday, March 3rd, with a “CEO Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award” by Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work, at its 3rd annual Leadership Awards Gala Dinner at the Four Seasons in San Francisco.

If you’re interested, here is a copy of the short acceptance speech that Jim delivered at the ceremony:

“Thank you to Michael Bush and everyone here at Great Place to Work. Your efforts help inspire companies and leaders to create the best workplaces in the world, and to recognize them when they do. Thank you for that. Our formula at Logistics Plus has been pretty simple and it really hasn’t really changed much in the 24 years we’ve been in business.

  • GPTW4ALL-programSurround yourself with good people. Communicate. Treat them well.

Honesty. Integrity. As my Dad always told me, ‘In the end, your good name is all that’s left’.

  • ‘Give a shit’. That matters more than most people think.
  • Find ways to YES; It’s easy in our industry to say ‘No…sorry…can’t do that’. BUT people LOVE folks who bring them SOLUTIONS/and not PROBLEMS. We are a SOLUTIONS company. We find ways to YES!
  • KISS—Keep it simple. Find simplifiers/not complicators.

We have very few company rules other than The Golden Rule: Treat people as you’d like to be treated. Just follow that/we’ll be ok. The rest we can figure out as we go.

  • Focus on the MISSION, not just the money. Success at one will lead to the other.
  • Have and maintain a ‘Passion for Excellence’ (that has been our ‘trademark’ since Day 1).

And strive to grow. Growing is challenging but fun. (If someone ever complains about the pace of our growth, I always tell them: ‘If you don’t like growing pains…you’re REALLY gonna not like dying pains’).

  • And lastly … try and make work fun. If people like to be there, everyone benefits. We all spend more time with our workmates than we do with anyone else. Make it enjoyable to be there—not drudgery.

For our part, at least, this simple formula seems to be working. Logistics Plus has grown from 3 of us to become a $300 million global organization in 20 countries with thousands of customers and almost 450 talented and caring employees around the world. This ex-truckdriver couldn’t be more humbled or more proud of these fine people. Thanks again for this fantastic honor and for a most memorable and inspirational evening.”

– Jim Berlin, Founder & CEO, Logistics Plus Inc.

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Jim joined a 2020 awards list that includes fewer than 50 CEOs from some of the most admired companies in the world, such as American Express, Delta, DHL, Marriott, Salesforce, and Wegmans. A PDF copy of the program with a complete list of CEO honorees and profiles is available here (Jim’s profile is on page 11).  Jim’s profile is also shown below:

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Logistics Plus Receives Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2020 Recognition

Jim Berlin Honored with CEO Great Place to Work® For All Leadership Award

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Jim Berlin Honored with CEO Great Place to Work® For All Leadership Award

The award was presented last night at the 3rd annual Great Place to Work Leadership Awards Gala Dinner.

Summit_2020_Logos_leadership_award_1600ERIE, PA (March 4, 2020) – Logistics Plus Inc., a leading worldwide provider of transportation, logistics and supply chain solutions, is proud to announce that Jim Berlin, its founder and CEO, was recognized with a “CEO Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award.” The award was presented last night by Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work, at its 3rd annual Leadership Awards Gala Dinner at the Four Seasons in San Francisco.

The “For All Leader” awards recognize company leaders for long-term dedication and commitment to the development of every employee, for connecting diverse people to a common purpose, practicing humility and empathy, adapting to uncertainty, and for fostering trusting relationships across the organization. The CEO recipients were selected from companies that appear on Fortune’s annual lists of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, the 100 Best Workplaces for Women, the 100 Best Workplaces for Diversity, and the 150 Best Small and Medium Companies to Work For.

Logistics Plus has been certified as a Great Place to Work each of the past two years, and last year the company was recognized as the 54th best medium-sized workplace in the Fortune annual rankings.

Berlin-in-front-of-Truck“Thank you to Michael Bush and everyone here at Great Place to Work for the work you do to inspire companies and leaders to create the best workplaces in the world, and to recognize them when they do,” said Berlin. “My formula at Logistics Plus has been pretty simple. Surround yourself with good people. Treat them well. Communicate. Make work fun. If you do those things and you hire the right people, they’ll stay forever.”

In recognizing the honorees, Great Place to Work CEO Michael C. Bush said “The financial performance of these organizations and the industry leading commitment to corporate responsibility provide strong evidence that when you create a great place to work for all, it is better for business, better for people and better for the world.”

Mr. Berlin joins a 2020 awards list that includes fewer than 50 CEOs from some of the most admired companies in the world, such as American Express, Delta, DHL, Marriott, Salesforce, and Wegmans. The complete list of honorees is available here (Jim’s profile is on page 11).

2020 GPTW4ALL Awards Banquet

About Great Place to Work 

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, it has surveyed more than 100 million employees around the world and uses those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Great Place to Work helps organizations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Great Place to Work’s unparalleled benchmark data is used to recognize Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in the U.S. and more than 60 countries, including the 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World’s Best list published annually by Fortune. Everything it does is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work For All™. To learn more, visit greaplacetowork.com.

About Logistics Plus Inc.

Logistics Plus Inc. provides freight transportation, warehousing, fulfillment, global logistics, business intelligence technology, and supply chain management solutions through a worldwide network of talented and caring professionals. The company was founded over 23 years ago in Erie, PA by local entrepreneur, Jim Berlin. Today, Logistics Plus is a highly-regarded fast-growing and award-winning transportation and logistics company. With a strong passion for excellence, its 450 global employees put the “plus” in logistics by doing the big things properly, and the countless little things, that together ensure complete customer satisfaction and success.

The Logistics Plus® network includes offices located in Erie, PA; Akron, OH; Baltimore, MD; Birmingham, AL; Buffalo, NY; Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; Des Moines, IA; Detroit, MI; Fort Worth, TX; Haslet TX; Houston, TX; Laredo, TX; Lexington, NC; Los Angeles, CA; Melbourne, FL; Nashville, TN; New York, NY; Olean, NY; Ontario, CA; San Bernardino, CA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Tampa Bay, FL; Australia; Bahrain; Belgium; Canada; China; Colombia; Czech Republic; Egypt; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Libya; Mexico; Netherlands; Poland; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Taiwan; Turkey; UAE; Ukraine; Uganda; and United Kingdom; with additional agents around the world. For more information, visit www.logisticsplus.com or follow @LogisticsPlus on Twitter.

Media Contact:
Scott G. Frederick
Vice President, Marketing
Logistics Plus Inc.
(814) 240-6881
scott.frederick@logisticsplus.com

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Logistics Plus Receives Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2020 Recognition

Logistics Plus Recognizes 2019 LTL Carriers of the Year

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Logistics Plus Recognizes 2019 LTL Carriers of the Year

Estes Express, FedEx Freight, Ward Transport & Logistics, and Dayton Freight all receive honors.

All 2019 LTL Carriers of the YearERIE, PA (February 25, 2020) – Logistics Plus Inc., a leading worldwide provider of transportation, logistics and supply chain solutions, recently recognized four of its less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier-partners for superior performance in 2019. The annual awards were presented to the following carriers in each of two categories:

  • Estes Express and FedEx Freight were named the National LTL Carriers of the Year. It is the second consecutive year Estes has earned the honor, and the second in the past four years for FedEx Freight.
  • Ward Transport & Logistics and Dayton Freight were named Regional LTL Carriers of the Year. It is second time in the past three years that Ward has earned the honors, and the fourth consecutive year for Dayton Freight.

Logistics Plus manages hundreds of thousand LTL shipments annually as a top North American freight brokerage firm that delivers LTL services through its proprietary eShipPlus™ transportation management system (TMS) – an online platform made available to all of its LTL customers and select freight agents. In additional to standard LTL services, Logistics Plus offers shippers additional truckload, expedited, international, claims management, freight audit & payment, and business intelligence solutions.

The Logistics Plus annual LTL carrier awards are based on an assessment of the following performance criteria:

  • Share of Business and Growth
  • Service Performance
  • Price Competitiveness
  • Billing Accuracy
  • Customer Service
  • Account Representation

2019 was another record year for Logistics Plus, including our LTL business segment,” said Scott Frederick, vice president of marketing and LTL carrier relations for Logistics Plus. “All of the logistics specialists within our North American Division are very grateful for the ongoing support we receive from of all our carrier-partners. However, Estes, FedEx, Ward, and Dayton all stood out last year by providing exemplary performance in all aspects of our partnership.

About Logistics Plus Inc.

Logistics Plus Inc. provides freight transportation, warehousing, fulfillment, global logistics, business intelligence technology, and supply chain management solutions through a worldwide network of talented and caring professionals. The company was founded over 23 years ago in Erie, PA by local entrepreneur, Jim Berlin. Today, Logistics Plus is a highly-regarded fast-growing and award-winning transportation and logistics company. With a strong passion for excellence, its 450 global employees put the “plus” in logistics by doing the big things properly, and the countless little things, that together ensure complete customer satisfaction and success.

The Logistics Plus® network includes offices located in Erie, PA; Akron, OH; Baltimore, MD; Birmingham, AL; Buffalo, NY; Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; Des Moines, IA; Detroit, MI; Fort Worth, TX; Haslet TX; Houston, TX; Laredo, TX; Lexington, NC; Los Angeles, CA; Melbourne, FL; Nashville, TN; New York, NY; Olean, NY; Ontario, CA; San Bernardino, CA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Tampa Bay, FL; Australia; Bahrain; Belgium; Canada; China; Colombia; Czech Republic; Egypt; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Libya; Mexico; Netherlands; Poland; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Taiwan; Turkey; UAE; Ukraine; Uganda; and United Kingdom; with additional agents around the world. For more information, visit www.logisticsplus.com or follow @LogisticsPlus on Twitter.

Media Contact:

Scott G. Frederick
Vice President, Marketing
Logistics Plus Inc.
(814) 240-6881
scott.frederick@logisticsplus.com

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