GAC ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE WITH SWISS POST

Logistics Insight Asia, 1/11/2009

GAC has signed a strategic partnership agreement with document management specialist Swiss Post Solutions to bring its core document services and solutions to the Middle East. According to GAC, The alliance, to be known as GAC Office Solutions - Powered by Swiss Post Solutions, is part combines the company’s commercial skills, customer knowledge and geographical reach with Swiss Post Solutions’ technological and operational excellence in document outsourcing to offer a range of physical and digital solutions.

“The strategic tie-up with a world leading supplier like Swiss Post enables us to offer our Gulf-based maritime and logistics clientele value-added office solutions that can help them trim cost, enhance productivity and improve information management,” says Christer Sjödoff , group vice president for GAC Solutions.

Markus Becker, CEO, Swiss Post Document Solutions, said that he welcomed the timely expansion into this new market: “We have expanded rapidly through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. Our success and growth in Europe and the USA provide the crucial foundation for us to penetrate new markets, and this exciting new venture with GAC represents a fantastic opportunity for us to enhance our international reach.

Note: In the Sep/Oct issue of LIA, C-level Conversation feature, it was stated that GAC has 11 offices in Asia Pacific. The actual figure is 50 offices in 11 countries in the region.