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Leandro Viana appointed Director of Global Accounts for CEVA in Brazil

29 April 2010 - 15:40 CET

São Paulo, Brazil, 29 April 2010 - CEVA Logistics, one of the world's leading supply chain companies, has announced Leandro Viana as Director of Global Accounts in Brazil.

Viana joined CEVA in October 2009 as Operations Manager. In his new role leading CEVA's Global Accounts in Brazil, Viana will focus on further developing the company's partnerships with its top multi-national customers, known as Century Accounts.

The Century Program is the key account program for the top 100 global customers who present major opportunities across geographies and product lines and represent a major part of CEVA's total business. Viana's appointment will assist CEVA to increase the share of activity with these customers through further focus and leveraging CEVA's entire service portfolio and global presence.

Viana graduated with a degree in Economics through PUC-MG and Business Administration through UFSCar. He is also specialized in International Trade and has a Master's degree in Transportation Engineering, both from Unicamp University. Before joining CEVA, he has worked for Logimasters Dacsher and Grupo Libra.

For more information contact:

Elisandra Casaroti
+55 11 2199-6820
elisandra.casaroti@cevalogistics.com  

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CEVA Logistics provides world class supply chain solutions for large and medium-size national and multinational companies across the globe. As an industry leader, CEVA offers customers complete supply chain design and implementation in contract logistics and freight management, alone or in combination. CEVA's integrated global network has facilities in over 170 countries and more than 46,000 employees; all dedicated to delivering consistently excellent operations and supply chain solutions. For the year ending 31 December 2009, the Group reported revenues of €5.5 billion. For more information, please visit www.cevalogistics.com.  

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