Latin America plays an important role in retailer Gap’s global sourcing strategy and has the opportunity to expand due, in part, to its proximity to the U.S. market. With stores located all over the world, “a global sourcing strategy is essential,” Mark D’Sa, a Gap Senior Director of Sourcing and Production, told participants at WorldCity’s Trade Connections event in Miami Dec. 16. He was joined on the panel by Jonathan Bales, representing Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, who oversees the German logistics company’s cruise industry business, and WorldCity President Ken Roberts. Trade… Read More
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Roberts previously owned Miami International Forwarders
Lenny Roberts
Miami International Freight Solutions CEO
Lenny Roberts and a number of other veterans from Miami International Forwarding are celebrating the one-year anniversary of Miami International Freight Solutions.
MIF was sold to Eagle Global Logistics in 2003, and Roberts had a five-year non-compete agreement as part of the transaction.
Roberts founded MIFS, the new company, in 2008 with his brother-in-law Jose Aquirre, Fred Annunziata and two other veterans from MIF.
The area west of Miami International Airport was once typified by the large number of small- to medium-sized “mom and pop” freight forwarders who helped build the area and at the same time their companies. Over the last decade, many of them were purchased by larger logistics companies looking to capitalize on export trade with Latin America.
MIF was one of those companies and at its sale the largest locally owned freight fowarder in the market.
Jose Aguirre and Roberts were partners at MIF and now at MIFS.
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Gap, Hellmann detail operations at final Trade Connections event of 2009
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