Atlantic Logistics announces twenty many years in business as a female-owned business
Atlantic Logistics, a person of the fastest increasing logistics corporations in the U.S., is delighted to announce 20 several years in organization with Evelyn E. “Evie” Hooper as proprietor, president, and founder, alongside with her son Rob Hooper, CEO, and daughter Shelbie Jordan, Vice President.
Commencing in 2001 as a modest family members enterprise, Evie, and her partner Bob Hooper, now deceased, recognized Atlantic Logistics in their Jacksonville, Fla. residence. Prior to Atlantic Logistics, Bob was a top rated director and administration executive in transportation, and a 35-yr market chief with Ploof Truck Lines exactly where he was President and COO. The Hooper family members proceeds to function and preserve his legacy as trail blazers and moral business enterprise owners.
As a specialist brokerage in 3rd get together logistics (3PL) with a concentration on truckloads, flatbed, refrigerated, van, and government transportation providers, the company has grown to 39 employees in their company making complicated headquartered at 3003 Claire Lane, Suite 303 in Jacksonville and 150 S. Lawrence Blvd. in Keystone Heights, Fla.
According to Evie Hooper, the organization is a mid-sizing, market competitor in customer provider and assumed management. “Our Government group features decades of insider knowledge with sustained expansion and recognition,” she claimed. “We are happy to keep on our relatives tradition via extra management to an now accomplished crew. Our organization credo is to do the appropriate detail and observe the Golden Rule.”
“This is a major milestone for Atlantic Logistics,” stated CEO Rob Hooper. “Our working experience and proven governance will increase the enterprise in all divisions with an excellent observe history among motorists and carriers renowned in the field,” he claimed. “We are extremely grateful to our dependable consumers and thankful for their partnership. We could not have attained this milestone devoid of them and our devoted team associates. Atlantic Logistics strives to consistently grow, innovate, and increase service, and have an understanding of that earning our client’s enterprise is a daily job, and we prosper on that obstacle.”
Joining the enterprise in 2003, Rob is at the moment liable for the firm’s strategic leadership and administration of every day operations. Prior to Atlantic Logistics, Rob was Assistant Pastor at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Bloomington, Ind. Although attending Indiana University, he served in a number of roles including Laboratory Teacher, Statistical Analyst, Study Assistant, Affiliate Teacher, and Graduate Assistant. He is a graduate of the College of Florida, earning bachelor’s degrees in History and Economics. He also obtained M.A. and Ph.D. levels in Economics from Indiana College.
Evie Hooper is immensely happy of her group which consists of professional gals in the non-traditional business. “When it comes to challenges, our in-dwelling team has still to fulfill one they have not bested, and we’ve obtained some of the greatest people in the small business,” she explained. “Especially in the course of Women’s Record Thirty day period in March, we celebrate their perseverance to buyer assistance and command of the subject matter which fuels our accomplishment. We thank the really hard-functioning females and men in the organization and search forward to the following 20 yrs.”
Evie’s daughter Shelbie, is also in the business enterprise as vice president and was formerly a subprime home finance loan broker, marketed position-of-sale terminals in the banking marketplace, and served as a collections and fraud investigator. Shelbie is liable for exploration and accounting functions at the logistics business enterprise.
“One of our exceptional attributes as a brokerage organization from early on features our belief in principled and honorable tactics. We have paid our carriers promptly in 14 days considering the fact that the beginning of the business, which aided phrase to spread about our nimbleness to give them with function, hold them utilized and on the highway, and paid out quick,” stated Evie. “Word of mouth has helped our organization to grow for 20 a long time with a heritage from early advertising at truck stops, to the sophistication we now use to do small business with direct motorists and carriers,” she claimed.
“I have usually helped my partner with the company because the to start with day of enterprise and proceed to get the job done every day into my senior decades with my son and daughter as they primarily run the organization with a longtime, dedicated employees who are like our family members. We are blessed to have a tradition of caring, still we all function incredibly challenging to make Atlantic Logistics a great good results,” she claimed.
Rob Hooper shares quite a few of Evie’s philosophies in small business. “We generally do the suitable matter and reside by the Golden Rule. We focus on giving a terrific company with a acceptable margin, nevertheless we’re expanding with new hires and management improvement,” he explained.
Hooper forecasts the organization will probably build enterprise-owned assets with trucks and extra means of transportation, along with expanding its part as a brokerage. “Working with our inside staff provides us with reliable relationships that span 20 years. This is a collegial sector and we’ve produced extensive term associations with our clients as effectively as signing up new customers every working day,” claimed Hooper. He thinks in sluggish and regular progress with employing the most effective expertise and an emphasis on coaching as the company’s important to success.
“Our best abilities include things like managing the purchaser correct and skillfully, and we give an excellent stage of service. I am dedicated to my family members and attribute the tricky-doing the job heritage of my mothers and fathers and their training to our milestone anniversary,” he stated. Atlantic Logistics continues its long custom with charitable giving and strategies to enable university learners with instructional scholarships in logistics and source chain administration to aid the sector improve and prosper. A volunteer method among workers with paid volunteer days to assist those people in want is a precedence for the business.