Erck Rickmers poaches two more executives from CPO Investments Move coincides with owner’s return to Hamburg and will see a revival of the Blue Star brand ERCK Rickmers’ ER Group has lured over two more senior staffers from Claus-Peter Offen’s CPO Investments for a major new investment vehicle that will launch at the start of 2018, it emerged this morning. The project — which involves reviving the historic Blue Star brand — will coincide with the return to Hamburg of Mr Rickmers, who has taken several years out to secure a postgraduate degree in the US, and may herald his re-engagement with the industry, Hamburg sources believe. Lloyd’s List reported the departure of highly regarded institutional investment guru Christoph Geck-Schlich from CPO last week, confirming that he was due to start with ER on January 2. But in a statement, ER says he will be joined by his two key lieutenants at CPO, Bastian Hagebeuker and Tim Ostermann, who were both on the board of Crystal Ocean Advisors, a joint venture between Offen, NordLB and alternative assets specialists Caplantic. The loss of such senior figures is likely to come as a setback for Mr Offen’s own plans to tap the institutional investor market, and he is known to be headhunting for replacements. Meanwhile, ER Schiffahrt’s new strategy comes as its owner resumes residence in the German shipping capital, after studying for an MA in religious studies at University of California Santa Barbara. Mr Rickmers has always had a maverick reputation, after standing back from his company in 2011 to enter the Hamburg state parliament for the centre-left SPD, only to quit in 2013 and head across the Atlantic. Blue Star Line was inaugurated in 1911 by the British Vestey family, which controlled a chain of butchers and was heavily involved in the importation of beef from Argentina. It was bought by P&O Nedlloyd in 1998 and eventually became part of the Maersk empire when the Danes bought P&O Nedlloyd in 2005. Maersk sold it as a shipmanagement company to Komrowski in 2009, and Komrowski merged with ER Schiffahrt in 2012. The marque has since been dormant.
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