M+R Singapore appoints Gareth Evans as new executive director

FOLLOWING the visit of the M+R Spedag Group's owner and manager Daniel Richner to Thailand, the company has promoted Gareth Evans as executive director, with effect from January 1 this year.

"Gareth has joined M+R Singapore in 2004 and has done a tremendous job in making M+R Singapore a very successful entity," a company statement said.

In his new capacity as executive director, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, Mr Evans will be responsible for management and development of these three countries, as well as Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.

"Gareth with his vast experience in general forwarding, projects, in particular in the oil and gas sector, as well as his entrepreneurial drive makes him the ideal person to bring these countries to the next level within the M+R Spedag Group. As in the past 26 years, we always focus to continuously enlarge our network to serve customers and agent partners on the expected highest quality level," said the company statement.

Founded in 1952 as a freight forwarding company, the M+R Spedag Group is still a family-owned transport and logistics company based in Basel, Switzerland. Original owners Roger Metzger and Hansruedi Richner, passed on management to son Daniel Richner, who took over all shares of the company as well as the presidency of the group in 2006.