Wolfram Senger-Weiss, Chairman of the Management Board of Gebrüder Weiss, has been awarded the Grand Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria – one of the country’s highest national honors. The award was presented on April 9, 2026, by Federal Chancellor Christian Stocker during an official ceremony held in the western Austrian state of Vorarlberg. 

In his remarks, Chancellor Stocker emphasized the international impact of Senger-Weiss’ leadership: “This distinction goes beyond recognizing entrepreneurial success. It also honors his global vision and his commitment beyond Austria’s borders – with the clear objective of creating prosperity and securing jobs in Austria for the long term.”

The Grand Silver Decoration of Honor is among Austria’s most prestigious state awards and is granted to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the nation across economic, social, or cultural fields.

Recipient of the VN Business Award
On the same evening, Senger-Weiss was also honored with the VN Business Award, presented by Vorarlberger Nachrichten, the leading regional newspaper in Vorarlberg, Austria. The award recognizes business leaders who combine entrepreneurial responsibility with vision, consistency, and strong values.

The jury highlighted Senger-Weiss’ entrepreneurial achievements, the company’s sustainable economic success, and its long-term commitment to its home region of Vorarlberg. This includes major investment in a new logistics and IT center in Wolfurt, Vorarlberg, further strengthening the region as a key logistics hub in Central Europe.

Accepting the award on behalf of the entire organization, Senger-Weiss stated: “This recognition reflects the collective efforts of our employees worldwide and affirms our consistent path – combining sustainable growth with a strong commitment to our roots.”

The awards were presented as part of the annual “Top 100” event organized by Vorarlberger Nachrichten, which brings together leading figures from business and politics across the region and honors excellence in multiple categories.

The customer magazine ATLAS published by Gebrüder Weiss has received the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2025. The international jury presented the 21st issue, on the theme “Material,” with the Red Dot quality seal for excellence in both design and concept. This marks the third Red Dot Award for ATLAS.

Receiving multiple international design awards is highly unusual for a logistics magazine and underscores Gebrüder Weiss’s strong editorial and creative standards. “ATLAS goes beyond what you’d typically expect from a customer magazine. Our goal isn’t to promote or lecture but to tell compelling stories that open a window into the world of logistics – both visually and editorially. The Red Dot Award validates our approach, and we’re truly delighted,” said Frank Haas, Head of Marketing and Communications at Gebrüder Weiss and Editor-in-Chief of ATLAS.

The award-winning issue explores the many materials and energy sources essential to logistics – from asphalt and concrete to carbon fibers, water, electricity, and alternative fuels. The edition was created in collaboration with photographer Göran Gnaudschun, whose precise and thoughtful visual language highlights the beauty of these seemingly ordinary materials. Additional contributors include büro uebele visuelle kommunikation (Stuttgart) and editor Miriam Holzapfel, who worked closely with the Gebrüder Weiss editorial team on concept and execution.

The official award ceremony will take place on November 7, 2025, in Berlin.

About the Red Dot Award
The Red Dot Award is one of the world’s most prestigious design competitions and is presented in three categories: Product Design, Brands & Communication Design, and Design Concept. Each year, designers and companies from around the globe are invited to submit their campaigns and projects for evaluation by an international panel of experts. The Red Dot seal has become a globally recognized symbol of design excellence.

The complete award-winning ATLAS issue “Material” is available here: 
https://publications.gw-world.com/atlas21-material/

More ATLAS issues can be found at: www.gw-atlas.com

Gebrüder Weiss is the winner of the “Logistics Brand 2023” contest, organized by the trade journal “Verkehr”, based on readers’ and experts’ votes. In the final round, the company prevailed against three competitors. Jürgen Bauer, Member of the Management Board, and Frank Haas, Head of Corporate Brand Strategy & Communications at Gebrüder Weiss, accepted the award in Vienna on November 7. Each year, the trade journal awards this distinction to outstanding brands within the logistics industry. The winners are determined based on an expert panel’s evaluation and through an online voting procedure among “Verkehr” readers.

“The award shows that we are on the right track with our brand and communications strategy. We have managed to credibly and measurably communicate our corporate values and goals to the public, thus emphasizing the reputation of Gebrüder Weiss as a trustworthy logistics service provider, innovative industry player and reliable employer. Our authentic brand management is part of the company’s success,” said Jürgen Bauer on the occasion of the “Logistics Contest 2023”. Already in February this year, Gebrüder Weiss was awarded the Austrian State Prize for PR in the “Product and Service PR” category for their outstanding communication.

Gebrüder Weiss on Mars? Not just yet. But the logistics company is indeed helping scientists at the Austrian Space Forum with their maneuvers on Earth so that mankind’s dream of sending a manned expedition to Mars may one day be realized. The aim of these missions is to simulate conditions on the Red Planet as realistically as possible, and to prepare both man and machine for these demanding challenges.

The last undertaking of this kind took place last year in the Israeli Negev desert. Not only was it a resounding success for the scientists involved, but it also resulted in the team of communication experts at Gebrüder Weiss, who were responsible for providing vivid coverage of the mission, being awarded the Austrian State Prize for PR in the category “Product and Service PR” for their outstanding communications work.

The prestigious award was presented in Vienna on the evening of Wednesday, February 22 by the Minister of Economic Affairs, Martin Kocher. Frank Haas and Vanessa Hafner from Gebrüder Weiss were there to accept the award: “As the world’s most experienced logistics company, Gebrüder Weiss is committed to the future of mobility. We want to help science find new ways and means. This is something we can achieve both with logistics, of course, but also with communication,” says Frank Haas, the person responsible for international communications and marketing at the logistics company.

Global communication offensive 
Gebrüder Weiss was on hand to provide continuous reporting on the progress of the scientific mission across all communication channels. The company’s magazine published a Mars special edition, which included an in-depth interview with the head of the Austrian Space Forum, Gernot Grömer. The Gebrüder Weiss apprentices involved in providing the logistics for the project reported on their experiences under the hashtag . This also resulted in a dedicated being made about the mission. The international media also responded very positively to the commitment shown by Gebrüder Weiss. Frank Haas: “Supporting a Mars mission is an undertaking that generates a lot of interest around the world, which is why we had press coverage in almost all Gebrüder Weiss markets. Even Chinese and American media were very interested in what we have been doing.”

The Mars campaign has incidentally resulted in a kind of “space competence cluster” being formed at Gebrüder Weiss. This is because the Stockholm-based Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) now also relies on the logistics expertise of the orange logistics company, with Gebrüder Weiss on hand to help the Swedish project engineers in any way it can. The logistics provider also transported the complete set of research equipment to Sweden, in addition to providing logistics consulting services. More about this can be found in the current of ATLAS magazine. 

About the Austrian National PR Awards
Since 1984, the Public Relations Association Austria (PRVA) and the Austrian Federal Ministry / Labour and Economy have been recognizing exceptional communication campaigns with the National PR Awards. From the 140 applications submitted, 25 communications experts select the winners in six categories.

The German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) has awarded a gold certificate to the Gebrüder Weiss logistics center in Kalsdorf near Graz for its particularly resource-saving and eco-friendly building and operating concept. During the evaluation, ecological, economic and social aspects were taken into account, as were technical features. “This certification is the best proof that integral sustainability requirements have been implemented in the project with success,” says Johannes Kreißig, Managing Director of DGNB.

“The standards implemented in Graz allow us to set a group-wide quality benchmark for sustainable building at Gebrüder Weiss. An ideal working environment for our employees is just as important to us as is resource-saving construction and state-of-the-art energy management, which optimizes energy consumption and reduces operating costs,” explains Wolfram Senger-Weiss, CEO of Gebrüder Weiss. For many years, the company has taken sustainability aspects into account when planning its logistics centers. In future, the group plans to obtain certification for other facilities as well.

The high standard includes among others the efficient use of high-quality building materials and the use of wood from sustainable forestry. Another criterion is the property’s conversion capability: the facility in Graz is designed in such a way that it can also be used for other purposes, as well as enlarged or downsized module by module. A photovoltaics plant produces a maximum amount of electricity of 460 megawatt hours per year. Enough to meet around half of the energy needs of the entire location.
The logistics center in Graz has been operated by Gebrüder Weiss since 2021. With a 16,500 square meter logistics hall, a handling space of 6,500 square meters and 180 employees, the location is a central hub for transports to South-Eastern Europe.

The international transport and logistics services provider Gebrüder Weiss was awarded this year’s HERMES.Verkehrs.Logistik.Preis in Vienna on October 21 by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. Conferring the distinction in the category "Supply Chain," the Chamber singled out the achievements of the customer portal myGW. Awarded annually to Austria-based transport and logistics companies by the country’s Department of Transport and Traffic, the prize honors exceptional services and innovations.

The web-based myGW platform gives Gebrüder Weiss customers access to all relevant information on their transport and logistics orders around the clock and enables them to keep up-to-date on their status real-time. An electronic booking system, digitalized document management and the option of communicating through myGW all make this platform a central access point for shippers and their customers.

"The Hermes award pays tribute to how intensively we have driven our digital services over the past few years. We are continuously adapting the myGW functions to the needs of our customers with the objective of increasing the transparency and efficiency," commented Wolfram Senger-Weiss, CEO at Gebrüder Weiss. 
The customer portal went live in the fall of 2020 and has already attracted more than 12,000 users. In a satisfaction survey, the online platform rated 4.5 out of a possible 5 points.

The Austrian Foreign Trade Centre Almaty (Kazakhstan) has presented Gebrüder Weiss with the Silk Road Biz Award 2021. The prize was awarded for successfully completing a major project in which Gebrüder Weiss transported 35 dredgers from the Netherlands to the eastern Turkmen city of Kerki. The dredgers, each weighing 90 tons, are used to keep rivers and canals free of sand and sediment deposits coming from the nearby Karakum Desert. The project, which lasted for a year, involved breaking down the dredgers into components and then transported on heavy load trucks via the New Silk Road to Turkmenistan.

Thomas Moser, Director and Regional Manager Black Sea/CIS at Gebrüder Weiss: “The award demonstrates that we are on the right track with our Central Asia strategy by including truck and railway transports along the New Silk Road in our portfolio at an early stage. The countries of Central Asia are becoming increasingly important for European exporters. Shippers and investors looking to develop new markets there can also draw on the country-specific expertise of our branches in Uzbekistan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and China.”

The panel of judges said: “Gebrüder Weiss has not only demonstrated the extent of its expertise relating to transports along the Silk Road, but it is also helping Turkmenistan to develop its water supply and agriculture on a sustainable basis. The Silk Road Biz Award 2021 therefore goes to Gebrüder Weiss in recognition of the skill shown in handling such a complex operation in a difficult environment. Congratulations!”

The series of transports to Turkmenistan completed last year in June is one of the largest projects handled by Gebrüder Weiss in the region to date. An average of eight heavy load and a total of 254 oversize transporters were used per dredger along the 7,000-kilometer route. After being dismantled, the components for each dredger had to be loaded in the exact order required for reassembly at the destination.

The dredgers are of existential importance for the Central Asian state’s population and agricultural operations. They safeguard the vital supply of water from the Amu Darya, keeping its canal and river courses free of sand deposits at all times.