Michael W. Wickham to Retire from C.H. Robinson Board of Directors
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2012--
C.H. Robinson Director Michael W. Wickham informed the Board of
Directors on December 6, 2012, that he will not stand for re-election at
the company’s next Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on May 9, 2013.
Wickham, 65 years old, has been a director of the company since 2004. He
retired as chairman of the Board of Roadway Corporation in December,
2003, where he was chairman and chief executive officer from 1996 to
2003. Prior to that, he was the president of Roadway Express, where he
held a variety of management positions during his 35-year career with
the company. Mr. Wickham founded and was chairman of the Board of the
Motor Freight Carriers Association. He also founded and chaired American
Transportation Research Institute, and is a director of Republic
Services (NYSE: RSG) and Douglas Dynamics, Inc. (NYSE: PLOW). He has
served on the Board of Directors of Children's Hospital in Akron, Ohio
and on its Foundation Board.
Founded in 1905, C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHRW) is a
global provider of multimodal transportation services and logistics
solutions, serving over 37,000 customers through a network of offices in
North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. C.H. Robinson
is one of the largest third-party logistics companies in the world, with
annual total revenues of over $10 billion. For more information about
our company, visit our Web site at www.chrobinson.com.
Source: C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
Angie Freeman, vice president, 1-952-937-7847
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