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J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge
June 15 2011  
It finally happened: UTS HQ Germany took part in the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge in Frankfurt am Main for the first time this year.

The biggest Corporate Challenge in the world took place for the 19th time this year, with 68,400 runners from 2,742 corporations. The Challenge is about sport, but more importantly it is about team spirit, communication, collegiality and fairness within the corporation.True to the motto "the friendly competition", the charity run was 5.6 km long, took the runners through the middle of the financial metropolis of Frankfurt in support of young handicapped sportsmen and sportswomen, a charity sponsored by the  J. P. Morgan Corporate Challenge, to which donations this year totalled 246,500 Euro.The five participants from UTS Germany HQ ran together with the coworkers of its  relocation partner RSB. Divided into two groups, the runners of  UTS and RSB  finished the race successfully and without injury and were rewarded with a finisher's T-Shirt.All the runners spent the rest of the evening with enthusiastic colleagues in the nearby park. UTS and RSB had organized a little get-together, where food was provided. Even the little shower of rain was not able to dampen the mood of those present.The coworkers of  UTS and RSB plan to participate next year, in the 20th J. P Morgan Corporate Challenge.

UTS Deutschland - Exhibitor at Trade Fair
"Personnel Management integrated: individual, flexible, varied" - This was the motto of the 19th Fair held in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt from June 8 to 9 2011 by the German Association for Personnel Management (DGFP).

The Fair for Personnel and Further Training included exhibitors, lectures and discussions in all three halls. The focus of the fair was on the future integration tasks of personnel management.
The UTS Germany HQ, as one of 200 exhibitors, had a booth that displayed the relocation services that it provided in cooperation with its relocation partners RSB. 
The two-day fair was visited by 2,600 professionals.

Participants benefit from competent partners - continued
 

Last year we reported that UniGroup UTS Germany, the Techniker Krankenkasse and the law firm HEUSER & COLLEGEN forged an alliance and successfully put on a series of seminars.
In response to the high demand in 2010, the series of seminars will be continued this year. Under the heading "International employment - Use of foreign skilled personnel"  the three collaborating partners are issuing an invitation to a one-day seminar in twenty different locations in Germany between May and November.
The seminar offers concise and practical information about the opportunities as well as the pitfalls of using global labor in general and foreign labor in Germany in particular.
The participants are also told about successful impat management.
These subjects are rounded off with presentations on insurance issues for impats and expats.

In addition to providing information, the event also offers participating managers, personnel managers, personnel consultants the opportunity to exchange experiences.

24.08.2011     Dresden
25.08.2011     Jena
14.09.2011     Hannover
15.09.2011     Münster
22.09.2011     Darmstadt
05.10.2011     Heidelberg
18.10.2011     Berlin
19.10.2011     Hamburg
09.11.2011     Munich
10.11.2011     Nuremberg

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• Registration forms
 

The number of participants per workshop is limited to 20 persons. Each company may send a maximum of three persons. Prompt registration is recommended.

Competency seminar

Deploying employees around the world

Fit to enter the global market           

The weighing up of site benefits or the restructuring or enhancement of a market presence can make it necessary to transfer individual employees, entire departments or even industry sectors. Much in demand in this respect is global move management – multilayered know-how that requires a lot of experience to do well.

So in November 2009 UTS Deutschland started its own seminar programme in order to offer expert advice on “Assigning Employees Overseas”. The seminars are already being offered in five major German cities. 45 managers (from HR and purchasing departments) from leading national and international companies have been introduced to the focal idea of purchasing removal services and compliance in overseas assignments for employees. The know-how was passed on by Paul Bernardt and Gerben Groothuis from UTS International and Achim Heuser, a lawyer at Kanzlei Heuser und Collegen, but customer-specific problems were also discussed during the seminar.

This type of know-how helps avoid costly downtimes in day to day business. It also means shifting the focus of the seminar to the relevant employees, to enable them to have a complication-free start in a new environment. A successful foreign assignment requires not only consideration of all business needs but also the fulfilment of tax, labour law and social welfare requirements. 

In a compact and practical form, the UTS seminars highlight for participants both the opportunities and the traps of deploying employees overseas. This sets the stage for successful international assignments.

Positive feedback from participants and the quality of the topics make only one decision possible: In the first half of 2010, the UTS seminars will be continued with new, interesting focal ideas, according to Axel Schurbaum, managing director of UTS Deutschland.

Bei Interesse merken wir Sie gerne vor. Schicken Sie unter dem Kennwort: UTS Seminar 2010 eine E-Mail an: zielinski(at)uts-germany.de.

Sabine Hartmann elected
Now serving in the FEDEMAC Executive Committee as an UTS representative

November 2009 The Federation of European Movers Associations (FEDEMAC) e.V., a registered association, elected the Advisory Council chair of UTS Deutschland, Sabine Hartmann, to its Executive Committee during the organisation's plenary meeting in Brussels.
Sabine Hartmann is General Manager of the business unit "Moving Services" at Hartmann International (a logistics-services provider which has now remained family-operated for six generations. This company, headquartered in Paderborn, is a partner in the corporation Unigroup Worldwide UTS.
FEDEMAC was founded in 1959 by national trade associations in the sector of relocation services and furniture removal to facilitate the intra-European exchange of information and ideas. The main function fulfilled by FEDEMAC is the co-ordination of national activities on the pan-European level. In all, approximately 4,000 professional moving companies from 25 countries have banded together under this umbrella to act as a strong advocate for their interests in the context of relations with the EU Parliament. The organisation FEDEMAC (headquartered in Hattersheim near Frankfurt am Main) is also involved in liaising with national associations in addition to other trade organisations – along with its professional lobbying activities in Brussels.
Since some members of the Executive Committee withdrew from active participation in this organ, necessary changes in personnel were pending. The new members of the FEDEMAC Executive Committee are (in addition to Sabine Hartmann from Germany):  Stephen Vickers from Great Britain and Roberto Megia Rodriguez from Spain. With that, also considering the other Executive Committee members - Denis Caulfield from Ireland, Aivars Usans from Latvia and Lucien Pot from the Netherlands, FEDEMAC – headed by Arnaldo Righetti as its new president – this organisation is European through and through.

DKMS Typing at Koch-International (UTS shareholder)
Together we are strong

Dezember 2008 Every 45 minutes someone in Germany gets leukaemia. Just a little prick can help. A year ago, KOCH-International sent money to DKMS (the German Bone Marrow Donor Center) as part of an all year round Christmas campaign for donations. This money helped organise typing in the middle of the year with the help of DKMS. The initiator of the campaign and the subsequent actions was Friedel Snethkamp, who has been typing since 1994. In 2004 he helped by donating his stem cells. The continued build-up of the bone marrow donation file is enormously important to him as the chance of finding a genetic twin and hence a donor with healthy stem cells is between 20,000 and 1,000,000 here.

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic
Long-term commitment

October 2009 Gerd-Jürgen Britsch, one of the founders of the UTS and longstanding managing director of Paul v Maur in Stuttgart, received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his social and corporate work from the State prime minister Günther Oettinger. "As founding member of the young entrepreneur organisation in the association Spedition und Logistik Baden-Württemberg e.V. he set the standard and fostered the association's internal cohesiveness", said Oettinger in his speech at Villa Reitzenstein. Britsch also made a variety of voluntary contributions to the practical training of young people.