Since the company was founded by Hans Geis in 1945, we have grown continuously. In three generations we have managed to develop from a freight forwarding company into a global logistics service provider. At the same time, it is essential for us to remain an independent family-owned company.
You, our customers, are the foundation of our success. That's why we are always right where you need us. We invest in growing markets, seek innovative solutions and continuously expand our services.
Thanks to new ideas and the use of modern technology, we meet complex requirements and guarantee the highest quality. In this way, we always offer the best overall package of individual benefits.
Hans-Georg Geis and Wolfgang Geis, Managing Directors of the Geis Group
At the beginning of the year we established our first company in Hungary. Geis Logistics Hungary Kft. started its activities with a logistics project. Our Hungarian team operates another supply and distribution centre in Budapest for a long-standing customer. In addition, we opened the second building of our logistics and technology center in Gochsheim in September and inaugurated our new buildings and annexes at the Port of Nuremberg. These include a new logistics and technology centre and the expansion of the forwarding terminal to one of the largest in the region.
The Geis Group has renamed its German project logistics company, which was founded in March 2019. From 13 January 2021, the Nuremberg-based General Transport (CH) Project GmbH will operate under the name Geis Projects GmbH. The name change does not affect the Swiss company Geis General Transport AG, whose name has been established in Switzerland for special transports for decades and will remain.
Geis further strengthened its Czech road network in the first half of 2020. The new addition is a branch in Bravantice in the east of the Czech Republic. In addition, the central centre in Modletice has been significantly expanded.
In the spring, the Geis subsidiary Bischoff International GmbH takes over the Kühne + Nagel (AG & Co.) KG branch in Lichtenfels and further expands its own ground transport network. Since 1 April 2019, the subsidiary has been operating under the name Geis Bischoff Logistics GmbH. In order to strengthen its own expertise in the field of customs, the subsidiary Geis General Transport AG also took over the customs agency Kaltenbach + Weiss based in Wheil am Rhein in the summer.
In May, Geis inaugurated its new logistics and technology center in Gochsheim, near Schweinfurt. The extensive storage capacity and the modern office environment provide ideal conditions for the execution of complex logistics tasks. In addition, the Air + Sea business branch expanded significantly again with the acquisition of the maritime and air activities of Müller + Partner GmbH in Germany, as well as TAS Transport and Service GmbH.
In 2017, Geis grew in all aspects: first, the capacity of the Kürnach logistics building near Würzburg was doubled, and then we opened our new general shipping center in the middle of Poland.
Thanks to the new acquisitions, Geis can provide comprehensive logistics services throughout Poland: in January, Geis Group takes over the road transport and contract logistics company ET Logistik. The new Fulda/Eichenzell operating terminal will be officially launched on April 30, tripling the region's capacity.
Thanks to the new acquisitions, Geis can provide comprehensive logistics services throughout Poland: in January, Geis Group takes over the road transport and contract logistics company ET Logistik. The new Fulda/Eichenzell operating terminal will be officially launched on April 30, tripling the region's capacity.
On 1 January Geis expands the Polish network with three locations and 80 employees by taking over Logwin Solutions Poland. At the start of July Geis ceremoniously opens the new logistics centre in the Thuringian town of Seubtendorf. In the Czech Republic, from the middle of the year onwards, Geis provides the largest private network of parcel shops in the country with around 450 ‘Geis Points’. The subsidiary in Satteldorf operates in a new, state-of-the-art handling terminal from September onwards.
Four Geis subsidiaries are among the top 5 companies in the IDS quality ranking. At the end of June, the Geis Group will inaugurate a new central transhipment point for parcel, piece and pallet deliveries in Slovakia. The distribution centre, located in Zvolen, Slovakia, is one of the most modern facilities of its kind not only in Slovakia. On 1 July, the Geis Group will take over Logwin's subsidiaries Gochsheim/Schweinfurt in Nuremberg and Ludwigsburg. At the same time, the group will take over the Polish national company Quehenberger with seven branches, laying the foundations for a network that will cover the whole of Poland in the future.
At the beginning of the year, Geis will introduce a new service: the delivery, storage, positioning and installation of high-tech equipment such as MRI scanners - all managed from a single source. At the beginning of March, Hans-Georg Geis and Wolfgang Geis will receive the "LEO-Award" from DVZ for the best entrepreneur of the year. In September, Geis completed the installation of the transport plant in Ohrdruf, which now operates under the name Geis Eurocargo GmbH. In the Czech Republic, the Geis Group opens a new branch in the northern part of Prague and around Měšice.
In March, the Geis group receives the "Bayerischen Qualitätspreis" award. In April, Geis will start operations in its own logistics and technology park in Erlangen-Frauenaurach. In the same month, the project for logistics becomes part of the grouping Swiss company General Transport AG. In October, a logistics terminal will be added to the branch office in Kürnach.
The Geis Group continues to grow: at the beginning of June, Geis will open a new distribution center in Ostrava for its customer Husqvarna Group (garden and forestry equipment). Geis also distributes goods for Husquarna in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. From November 1, the Czech Geis group will expand with the logistics company Spedition Feico.
On 1 June Bischoff International takes over the customer transactions in national overland transportation from Militzer & Münch in Hof and Saalfeld. Geis expands the Logistics Services field in July with the acquisition of M&M logistics & trade GmbH and its four operative locations in Hof and Marktredwitz. Also, the Geis Group expands its range of services in August when it takes over the packaging company Georg Lechner GmbH in Oberhaching.
Network expansion in Germany and the Czech Republic: in January Geis officially opens the logistics and technology centre in Forchheim. Geis is now also represented by a subsidiary in Satteldorf near Crailsheim: the Road-Terminal opens on 1 April. In July General Parcel Čechy starts operating the new parcel hub in the Czech town of Chomutovice near Prague. A state-of-the-art logistics terminal is opened in November near Brünn.
In June Geis is presented with the award ‘Bayerns Best 50’ for the third time. On 12 September the new World Distribution Center (WDC) is ceremoniously opened together with Siemens Healthcare in Neu-Isenburg. Geis runs the 18,000 square metre plant and carries out the entire distribution and returns logistics under one roof. In the Czech Republic, Geis opens a special branch for air and sea transport at Ruzyně Airport in Prague
A wave of expansion from 1 January onwards: the Geis Group takes over three companies, thereby strengthening its long-term position in central Europe. Firstly the forwarding agency Bischoff, based in Naila and three additional subsidiaries. Secondly, the Slovakian company TEN Expres, which provides general cargo, parcel and logistics services. And finally the airfreight and sea freight specialists Cantrans in Warsaw, Wroclaw and Vienna.
Geis continues to take advantage of opportunities in Eastern Europe: a new hub in Modletice starts operating in May. This increases Geis CZ’s turnover capacity in the Prague region three-fold. In June Geis is presented with the award ‘Bayerns Best 50’ for the second time. In December, all of the Geis Group's German locations are certified in accordance with Environmental Norm ISO 14001:2004 for the first time. This makes Geis one of the few logistics service providers in Germany that have a certified environmental management system.
Geis also continues its course of expansion in 2004: in October the company officially opens a new forwarding and logistics terminal in Kürnach near Würzburg, doubling capacities in this region. In July Geis acquires the Würzburg-based Spedition Max Schürger, which is then integrated into Geis' Kürnach/Würzburg subsidiary. As part of this process the Slovakian Max Schürger subsidiary is also transferred to Geis. From this point the location in Bratislava operates as Geis SK s.r.o.
Geis and Häring GmbH have been operating under the name Geis Eurocargo GmbH & Co. KG since January of this year. The company's new name underlines its belonging to the Geis group and its specialization in European land transport. In July, the Geis Group receives the "Bayerns Best 50" award from the Bavarian Minister of Economy for the first time. Geis is one of the fifty Bavarian companies with the highest growth rate.
In the Czech Republic, the companies Geistransport, ISL and AUTOPOST-EXPRES are merging. This is how Geis CZ s.r.o. was created. More than 400 employees provide their customers with services in the field of national and international transport and logistics. Geis opens a new distribution center in Mohelnice. Together with SDV, Geis is forming a new company to provide global air and sea transport and logistics services. The name of the joint venture is Geis SDV.
With the takeover of Häring GmbH & Co. KG’s the Geis Group is now partner in the general cargo cooperation in IDS in the Nuremberg area. With now three locations in the IDS cooperative, the business field Road Services gains a strong presence in the important economic area of central and southern Germany. Geis is also expanding in the field of logistics services, both by expanding its warehouse space and its IT systems.
Geis founds three companies focusing on complex logistics projects: Geis Industrie-Service GmbH in Nuremberg, TSG Logistik GmbH in Durynsk and ISL s.r.o. in the Czech Republic. In March 1999 Geis takes over AUTOPOST-EXPRES s.r.o. In 2000, Geis opened a completely new logistics complex and distribution centre in Ejpovice, near Pilsen, Czech Republic. With the acquisition of all Jacky Maeder branches in Asia in May 1999, Geis strengthens its presence in the Far East.
Geis focuses strongly on the East: in May 1990 the Thüringer Speditionsgesellschaft starts business in Ohrdruf. With the foundation of Geistransport s.r.o. in 1991, Geis is also active in the Czech Republic. In 1992 Geis sets up ILS-EAST, a cooperative for Eastern European transportation, together with 17 partners. Geis enters the Czech parcel market in 1994 with the affiliate General Parcel Čechy.
A decade characterised by creating comprehensive networks. In 1981 Geis gains the IATA agent agreement and founds the airport office in Nuremberg in 1982. In Singapore the company Geis Cargo Far East is successfully started, laying the foundation for further Geis developments in Asia. By joining the IDS cooperation in 1989, Geis sets the way for comprehensive overland transportation in Europe.
The move to modern forwarding: warehousing, order picking and shipping become important business fields. On 1 March 1971 Geis’ younger son, Wolfgang Geis, starts working at the company as business economist. From very early on, Geis starts investing in modern procedures such as swap body technology and introduces data processing as early as 1974. At the same time Geis starts looking towards internationalisation and ships its first sea container to Singapore in 1975.
The sixties are the years of great expansion for the transportation company. On 1 April 1963 Hans-Georg Geis joins his father’s company as a freight forwarding clerk. Geis enters in the warehousing business. In 1964 the first handling plant is erected in Bad Neustadt with an area of 300 square metres.
In the fifties Hans Geis extends his fleet to 22 units and employs 35 members of staff – including the family who are actively involved. A large number of trips go to the Nuremberg area, so the first subsidiary is founded there in 1959. This signals the start of regular scheduled transportation between Bad Neustadt and Nuremberg.
Back in 1945 Hans Geis has founded a haulage company under this very name located in the city of Bad Neustadt an der Saale. The whole capital assest was an old army wood-carburettor truck out of army stock, purchased with borrowed money. His first orders have been removal transports for privat customers to all regions of post-war-Germany. On April 12th, 1948 he has recieved official permission by regional council and has opened an office in the facilities of a lumber business.
