Company History Nuremberg

It all started in the fall of 1986 and with an 8 year old truck. Klaus & Monika Rotter closed a market gap at the Nuremberg airport, while offering trucking services to the local freight forwarding industry. That is how K&M developed.

1989

The number of trucks were increased to 10. Daily pick up and deliveries in the ahole of northern Bavaria, from Hof to Regensburg, Weiden to Rothenburg and from Ingolstadt to Wuerzburg.

1991

The opening of our subsidiary (K&M Euro-Logistics GmbH) in Munich. We achieved a daily line haul from Munich to Nuremberg

1992

Handling road feeder service for Alitalia, Iberia and LTU.

1993

Daily line haul to and from Frankfurt

1994

New products –in Warehousing and Project Logistics.

1995

We operate with 20 trucks and the number of employees increased to 30.

1997

We extend our daily line haul services to Amsterdam and Luxemburg.

1998

New customers on board for our road feeder services, are Lufthansa, Martinair, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, Swiss Air and Eva Air.

1999

We completely switched our fleet to MAN trucks, offering the newest technical standards. Due to additional handling activities at the airport facilities, we were able to create 15 new jobs.

2000

An extremely prosperous year. Our turnover increased by nearly 20 %, also an indicator of the number of our happy customers. We are now major provider at the Nuremberg airport for local trucking and line haul for air cargo.

2001

We received the ISO Standard Certificate 9002:1994 award.

2002

We call 43 trucks our own and consist of 65 employees. To fulfil our customer expectations in regards to our services, we continuously train our employees.

2003

We increased our warehouse capacity and centralized our offices at Nuremberg airport and received the ISO Standard 9001:2000 award.

2004

For the branches Forwarding and Logistics we created two trainee jobs.

2005

We extended our truck-fleet to 55 and the number of employees reached the magical 100 figure.

2006

We built  a raps diesel gas station, and a truck repair and maintenance centre.
On a 5000 square meter area, invested in a distribution centre, covering 600 sqm office space and 2500 sqm warehouse area.

2007

A new warehouse with 1500 square meter storage area, will soon be available in Nuernberg-Boxdorf for storage, transit handling, pick and pack and distribution.

2008

We are proud to welcome Nippon Express as a new member of our clientele. The services we provide include warehouse administration, custom clearance and dispatching. At the Cargo Center 2 Nuremburg, we further expanded our warehouse surface by 1100 m².


For the airlines and forwarding agents, we will continuously improve existing logistic concepts and develop new ones, to meet the requirements of this rapidly changing market.