History

Andreas Andresen A/S was founded in 1916 in Vamdrup by C. G. Søndergaard. In 1920, he moved the company to Padborg at a time when shipping and forwarding were still relatively unknown concepts. Andreas Andresen, who took over the company in 1928, managed it until his death in 1976. The company remained in the family and continued under the control of Luise Andresen until her death in 1992, where responsibility for the operations of the company was transferred to a fund.

The company originally transported livestock and agricultural machinery. This was later followed by foodstuffs and industrial.

In Padborg, Andreas Andresen A/S was run from a small office near the railway. At this time, the company only had 3 employees. The office was so cramped that two of them had to stand up if the person sitting farthest from the door wished to get out!

In 1957 Andreas Andresen built a new head office on Jernbanegade 12 and in 1965 the company constructed the first part of the cold store, Padborg Frysehus. This cold store was originally only 1,700 m² on area, now consists of 20,000 m3 of space.

In 1985, Andreas Andresen A/S had 15 vehicles. In addition, the company had 38 additional hired vehicles in service on a full-time basis. At that time Andreas Andresen A/S had around 100 employees working at the head office in Padborg and the branch offices in Hvidovre, Rødby and Flensburg. Gradually Andreas Andresen A/S specialised almost exclusively in the transport and shipping of foodstuffs.

In 1986 Andreas Andresen took over the trucking company Junker og Co A/S, and in the 1990's the market areas were exanded to include Russia and branch offices were established in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Klaipeda (Lithuania). Work on the new head office was completed in 1992. In the late 1990s the workforce had grown to some 220 employees divided between the head office and the branch offices in St. Petersburg and Moscow and Klaipeda. The company employed 65 permanent export hauliers.

In an attempt to address the challenges stemming from the significant changes in the structure of the transport industry in the late 1990s, Andreas Andresen A/S purchased the HST Padborg A/S company as of 1 January 1999. The whole group employed about 550 employees and had a turnover of DKK. 500 millions. The group had at that time about 250 own trucks, 500 own and leased trailers and considerable cold and dry cargo storage facilities and washing facilities at its disposal. Therefore, Andreas Andresen A/S was already at that time one of the market leaders in Denmark as regards transports of temperature-controlled goods and logistics solutions to / from Western- and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic States.

In 2002 Andreas Andresen A/S entered into a co-operation with Kraftverkehr Nagel, which at the same time became joint owner of teh company.

To strengthen its position on the Central Europe market, where the company already belongs to one of the leading companies, Andreas Andresen A/S took over the company Holger Pagh Sellerup ApS in June 2003. In this connection a branch office was established in Børkop near by Vejle.

In October 2003 Andreas Andresen A/S took over 50 % of the shares in KK Transport Struer. Andreas Andresen A/S is known for its international set-up, whereas KK Transport Struer is known for national distribution of temperature regulated goods. Thus, it is two companies which supplement each other well and with the establishment of the new co-operative company, we will be able to provide complete national and international solutions.

KK Transport Struer, which, as mentioned, is partly owned by Andreas Andresen A/S, has taken over 90% of the shares in EKV Transport A/S, Hørning as from 01.05.2004. EKV Transport A/S is known for its big activity within national distribution of foodstuffs. As KK Transport Struer also undertakes national distribution of foodstuffs, it was a natural extension of KK's big national network and a valuable supplement to Andreas Andresen A/S' far-reaching international activities.

Together the companies have a size which makes them able to provide a national as well as an international set-up covering all needs within distribution of foodstuffs.

In 2004 the cold store terminal on Thorsvej was enlarged from 8,000 m2 to 15,000 m2, and as a natural part of the structural change Kraftverkehr Nagel took over 75 % of the shares in Andreas Andresen A/S in 2006. The same year Andreas Andresen A/S took over 51 % of the shares in Trans Mar A/S. Now Andreas Andresen A/S had a complete concept for transport of fish products. It was also in 2006 that the continued growth in Andreas Andresen A/S was marked by the fact that the turnover passes DKK. 1 billion.

In 2007 Andreas Andresen A/S took over all shares in Trans Mar A/S and by the end of 2007 the Andreas Andresen-group employed 1,000 employees and had a turnover of DKK. 1.5 billion.

In 2008 the office in Padborg was enlarged to 5,000 m2 and the management and administration for Andreas Andresen and Trans Mar A/S were gathered under the same roof.

For the time being the group has more than 400 own trucks and 800 own trailers.