Timeline essential: Lethargic Kuehne + Nagel? 'Just take it private'
And what the market doesn’t want
The notion that the current corporate restructuring of Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) is revolution rather than the natural evolution of the forwarding species has been debated for weeks in our circles*.
(*Ever since, that is, we exclusively revealed a global hiring freeze, “effective immediately“, on 9 February, followed on 10 April by another win for Premium: ’EXCLUSIVE: New structure in sea logistics“.)
And…
In the past 24 hours, one headline from the Danish media…
… surely didn’t pass unnoticed.
Some bearish sources commented that more ...
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