Logistics UK launches its new Executive Membership offer
Logistics UK’s President, Phil Roe, invited industry representatives to join a drinks reception on 12 September 2023 to launch the business group’s new Executive Membership offer.
Speaking at the Institute of Directors’ head office in Central London, Roe said: “This is an important new chapter for Logistics UK. It represents our evolution over the last three years from FTA. The name change was really fundamental to Logistics UK, showing the fact – not the ambition – that we represent all areas of the logistics industry, representing 21,000 member businesses, all modes of transportation, representing people who own and move goods as well as the people who move goods on their behalf.”
In the last few years, Logistics UK has helped its members navigate first Brexit then the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout these turbulent times, Roe reflected that the business group had remained as the consistent voice of the logistics industry.
“As we move forward, we need to achieve more for those that we represent, so we have created our Executive Membership offer. It is a new form of membership for Logistics UK, focusing on the senior leaders within logistics, providing tools and insights and events, critically that will help leaders in the industry think about business strategies and also the decisions that they need to make in those key areas – skills, decarbonisation and technology.”
On the question of why Logistics UK needs a new membership offer when it is so well embedded in the operational side of the industry it serves, Roe argued that its future role would increasingly be to advise at all levels of seniority within the sector.
“Yes, we have a heavy focus – and we always will have – on the people who are operating logistics across the UK, but increasingly those big business decisions that are being made are being taken at a much more senior level. Our core offer is focused very much on the operational side of the business and less so at the strategic side of the business. This offer is the other way around – it is focused on helping leaders form their strategy, on giving impartial and informed advice separately from our day-to-day operational business.”
The Executive Membership offer complements Logistics UK’s operational offer, giving senior personnel from the industry insight, information and influence on the mega-trends affecting the sector, such as skills, decarbonisation and innovation.
“This new membership enables the leaders of logistics to challenge and investigate the issues that impact our world,” Roe said, “Also we see personalised advice on issues becoming increasingly important for you and your fellow board members, because we believe that the sector is more and more in need of that additional advice and impartial insight and information.”