by Jesper E. Thomsen | Jun 26, 2020 | Digital, Logistics, Software
After having been on Arviem’s Advisory Board for a couple of years, I was asked to join Arviem’s board and naturally accepted. Fortunately, the shareholders agreed at the Annual Shareholders meeting (which had been postponed two months due to Covid-19)....
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Jun 15, 2020 | Business, Logistics, Software
The new logo for Kontainers has been revealed, as the media have been commenting on the acquisition. The coverage has ranged from the usual industry sources as well as the more general media, such as The Chronicle Live. Most have been using the press release sent out,...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Jun 11, 2020 | Business, Logistics, Software
It has just been announced that Descartes has acquired Kontainers. The press release gives the obvious reasons, but I know that the two founders, Graham and Charlie, set out to change the industry, and I honestly don’t think there is a better place for...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Jun 3, 2020 | Business, Logistics
…and just as quickly as the valuation went up, the valuation has come back down again. Hapag Lloyd hit its peak on the 15th of May at EUR 187 and in two weeks since dropped to EUR 75, which has led to all sorts of speculations and likely investigations. This...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Apr 30, 2020 | Business, Logistics
When I looked at how logistics companies were be valued by the investors 9 months ago we had no idea what was abou to hit the world. Of the companies I looked at, Maersk was the most valuable at USD 23,7B followed by K+N at USD 17,4B and DSV at USD 17,0B. Since then...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Mar 22, 2020 | Digital, Logistics, Transformation
CB Insights has done an analysis of the impact of the outbreak of Covid-19 private funding, which in particular impacts startups. The bad news Unsurprisingly, the bad news is that it is going to go down, and based on experience from previous outbreaks, especially Asia...
