Performance improvement & turnaround
Hands-on support in stabilising results and rebuilding margin, with people who have done it inside logistics businesses.
Investor · Partner · Steward
A partner for family-owned logistics companies.
Logistics Family Partners invests in and works alongside family entrepreneurs who are seeking support in the continuation of their business — with patience, discretion and a deep understanding of how logistics actually works.
About us
Built on tradition. Measured in decades.
Logistics Family Partners is an investor and partner for family-owned logistics companies that are seeking support in the continuation of their business. We step in where ownership questions, growth ambitions and operational reality meet.
We have deep expertise in the industry and have helped family entrepreneurs in the past in creating value in their business, improving performance, digitising the business, and building up new avenues of growth.
We buy to hold, not to flip. A family name on the door is an asset we intend to protect.
Investment Profile
We are typically partnering with logistics companies in a revenue range of EUR 50–400 million.
Geographies
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Denmark
- Norway
- Finland
- Sweden
Revenue range
€50–400m
Profile preference
We prefer to work with companies that operate across multiple logistics services and geographies — forwarding, contract logistics, terminals and specialised transport under one roof.
Partnership
How do we typically help as a partner?
Operational & commercial excellence
Network design, pricing, yield and service quality — the operating detail that decides profitability in logistics services.
Professionalisation of organisation, reporting & governance
Clear structures, reliable numbers and a board rhythm that lets the next generation lead with confidence.
Executive hiring when needed
Selective additions to the leadership team, always in dialogue with the family and never as a default first move.
Strategic refocus on long-term profitable business
Concentrating capital and attention on the services, lanes and customers that compound over decades.
Succession support & structures
Ownership solutions that respect family intent — full or partial, with or without continued family involvement.
Automation & AI implementation
Digitisation of planning, documentation and back office, built on what the operation actually needs.
Buy & build capability and capital
Sourcing, executing and integrating add-on acquisitions, backed by committed capital for the journey.
Thinking about succession or selling a family-owned logistics company? Read our guide to logistics M&A and succession.
Team
The people behind the promise
Etienne Hupp
General Partner
A passionate skier who studied financial economics at Oxford, Etienne brings close to ten years of experience in small and mid-cap private equity at Waterland. Throughout his career he has acquired multiple family-owned companies and worked alongside their founders to improve performance, strengthen governance and drive long-term growth. At Logistics Family Partners he focuses on new partnerships, M&A and financial development.
Jochen Freese
General Partner
A mechanical engineer by background and passionate sailor, Jochen brings decades of executive logistics expertise and an extensive network across the industry. He knows a wide range of companies and customers and has led operations at the executive level in Europe and globally. He has served as regional and global CEO and previously drove global growth as Chief Commercial Officer at CEVA Logistics and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, alongside leadership roles at Forto and UTi Worldwide. His focus is on operational and commercial excellence.
Anne Geuther
General Partner
A business graduate from LSE and EBS Oestrich-Winkel, Anne spent several years running Investor Relations for Project A, one of Europe's largest venture capital funds. At the same time, as a member of the third generation of a logistics shareholder family, she has hands-on experience managing successions and reviving companies for the next decade. Her background combines institutional capital-raising with deep, practical insight into family-owned logistics businesses.
Advisors
Counsel we keep close
Marc Hedeman Joosten
Advisor
A lawyer by education. Previously Legal Counsel at the global investment organisation EQT and Head of M&A at Zedra.
Brian Nemeth
Advisor
Senior logistics and investment advisor.
To be announced
Advisor