Business as usual after acquisition

While the SA aviation general sales agent (GSA) Cargo Connection has just been acquired by ATC Aviation Services in Europe, there will be no change in the staff identity or operation of the company, according to MD Gerd von Mansberg. The new owner is part of the global partnership network, the GSA Group, with 140 offices around the world – and an overseas investor in GSA businesses itself. Von Mansberg told FTW that he had no intention of sitting on his back porch and watching the sun go down. “I will stay on as MD for the next five years,” he said. “Nothing else here at Cargo Connection changes. Our representation, management and operation will all remain the same.” He does, however, see the new association as an ideal means of generating extra business for the SA company. “It is ATC’s first footprint in Africa,” Von Mansberg added, “and we will obviously try to develop this new identity from here.”