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KC SmartPort Selects New Chairman Ken Hoffman steps down after two-year term KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Oct. 26, 2006 – John E. Wagner, Jr., president of Wagner Industries, Inc. accepted the KC SmartPort Board of Directors’ nomination today to serve as the organization’s chairman.
“KC SmartPort wants to make the Kansas City region the No. 1 logistics center in the nation,” said Wagner. “I look forward to helping them do just that.” In 2007, KC SmartPort will continue its efforts to work with the Kansas City Area Development Council to bring new, significant transportation and logistics-based companies to the metro. It also will continue its work on developing intelligent transportation systems (ITS) that can track, trace and secure shipments coming into, from and through the Kansas City area. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) and the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) predict the use of ITS in addition to efforts to attract distribution centers to the region will increase the KC area's Gross Regional Product by $870 million in ten years. It also calculates that these efforts will create 9,200 new full-time jobs. Wagner succeeds Ken Hoffman, lead attorney for the transportation practice at the law firm of Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP, who is stepping down after a two-year term. As an affiliate of the Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC), KC SmartPort was founded in 2001 in partnership with the Mid-America Regional Council and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. KC SmartPort worked alongside the KCADC this year to bring more than 1.8 million square feet of new distribution and warehousing space into the KC market. Kansas City SmartPort, Inc. is a non-profit economic development organization dedicated to building upon Kansas City’s historic transportation hub status to make Kansas City a cutting-edge, high-tech inland port. KC SmartPort has two main focuses in its mission: To grow the area’s transportation and logistics industry by attracting businesses with significant transportation and logistics elements; and to make it cheaper, faster, more efficient, and secure for companies to move goods into, from, and through the Kansas City area. For more information, please visit www.kcsmartport.com. # # # Brief Bio on Wagner: John Wagner has worked and supported the growth of Wagner Industries, Inc. for 30 years. He’s helped expand Wagner from a warehousing-only company to non-asset transportation, expanded operations and contract packaging services. John is a graduate of the University of Kansas and active in numerous civic and professional associations. In addition to KC SmartPort, John is active in WERC, CSCMP, IWLA, CPA, and TIA. Media Contacts: Chris Gutierrez President 816.374.5680 Ken Hoffman Attorney Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP 816.983.8140 John Wagner President and CEO Wagner Industries, Inc. 816.421.3520 Robert Marcusse President 816.374.5633 # # # |
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