As we celebrate our 20th year of business, we continue our walk down memory lane by sharing the following Times Erie-News newspaper clipping from December 11, 2005. This article profiles one of Erie’s fastest-growing businesses: Logistics Plus, of course (you can click the news clipping below to view a slightly larger image).
On January 6, 2016, Jim Berlin, founder and CEO of Logistics Plus, was a guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Erie. With some help from our friends at WP$E radio, here is an edited audio replay of that presentation (along with the slides that were shown that day).
As we continue to celebrate our 20th year of business, here’s another walk down memory lane. The following Erie Times-News newspaper clipping is from June 1, 2004. This article was a follow-up to the December 3, 2003 article (on the formal Union Station renovation ceremony), and it documents the company’s first day of business in its new, global headquarters (you can click the news clipping below to view a slightly larger image).
By KARA MURPHY Contributing Writer November 29, 2015 06:19 AM
ERIE, Pa. — The warehouse looks like any other. It has concrete floors and high ceilings. It’s chilly. Dust motes circle in slices of sunlight. But this space is unique. In fact, there are only about 230 other places like it in the entire nation. Part of this bare-bones warehouse — the former Penn-Brass building on Erie International Airport property at 3837 W. 20th St. — is now an activated Foreign Trade Zone, or FTZ.
Click here to read the rest of the article on GoErie.com, including interview comments by Gretchen Blough, customs brokerage manager for Logistics Plus.
As we announced last month, Jim Berlin/Logistics Plus and LP Linguistic Solutions were both nominated for Disrupt Erie Awards by Innovation Collaborative. Winners were announced Wednesday night at Presque Isle Downs & Casino. As reported by Erie Times-News earlier this morning, the following winners were named:
Companies nominated for awards are driving change within the community and within their respective industries, and are making a lasting economic impact and creating lasting opportunities. The Social Impact Entrepreneur of the Year Award was based on a founder’s work that has had the most positive impact on the community’s well-being over the past year. All winners were chosen (50%) based on public input and (50%) based on the specific criteria listed on the nomination forms. Final judging was performed by Mr. Thom Ruhe and the Innovation Collaborative Board of Directors.
Congratulations to all of the winners in Innovation Collaborative’s first-ever Disrupt Erie Awards!