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27th May 2010, Page 7
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Nightfreight chairman to hand over reins after successful. turnaround

NIGHTFREIGHT CHAIRMAN Robbie Burns (pictured) is to hand over day-to-day running of the express delivery operator to MD Peter Louden and finance director Ian Horsfall and take up a parttime non-executive advisory role.

Burns took on the roles of chairman and CEO of Nightfreight in 2007, and is credited with turning the business around and refinancing its once crippling debts.

Now, aged 61, he says it is time to hand over the reins to a younger management team. "Running a network business is gruelling and the climate in the past couple of years couldn't have been worse," Burns tells CM. "Since 2008 we have great results and it just needs lots of energy to keep it going now."

Burns, who has been in logistics for 40 years and made his name as the first CEO of Exel Logistics, has taken on an ambassadorial role with Skills for Logistics and will consider other non-executive positions in non-competing businesses.


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