Melis Logistics: growth and professionalisation of a family business
Melis Logistics flourishes and has experienced a lot in its more than 100 years of existence. Marwin Melis is the fourth generation and calls on his sister Manuela on a regular basis to solve problems or think along with him on strategic issues.
Manuela:
“Literally one day after my graduation, my father called me to help split up our family business. This was unconsciously my first interim assignment. I was immediately sold: I wanted to do this professionally for several clients. Soon after that I started TweeM. Melis is still an important client for me and I am regularly asked to think along with him. When our father suddenly died, I helped to keep the company running. My brother successfully took over the company from my father at that time. Among other things, I advise on strategic choices, such as acquisitions and growth of the company. The company burned down in 2016, after which I immediately helped to keep our family business going.
I am enormously proud of our family business and work with my brother with great pleasure and passion. Working for an SME keeps me on my toes. What I learn there, I take with me to the ‘big’ companies and vice versa. Working with short lines and fast switching appeal to me. And this helps me to be the accelerator for the big companies that are my clients.”
Testimonial
Marwin Melis, director Melis Logistics: “Manuela is a very smart girl who doesn’t let herself out of the field. She is very stubborn and brings customers on short and long term routes really fast. She is an all-rounder, from numbers to people: she always knows how to make things better. And, of course, she is a very sweet sister that I can rely on both in business and in my private life”.