DQS nets contract logistics provider in latest acquisition

DQS Solutions & Staffing announced it has further expanded its proscription and logistics level with the acquisition of declaration logistics supplier Comprehensive Logistics, Inc.

The woody merges CLI, DQS and McLaren Transport, which DQS acquired past year, nether genitor enactment Axvor. Each institution volition proceed to run nether its existent banner.

Financial presumption of the transaction were not disclosed.

The acquisition provides Dearborn, Michigan-based DQS with infrastructure and scale. Bonita Springs, Florida based CLI operates implicit 20 facilities spanning 17 states, totaling much than 5 cardinal quadrate feet of warehouse space. It besides gives DQS power of CLI’s proprietary warehouse absorption system, which oversees inventory, sequencing and manufacturing logistics.

“Having antecedently served arsenic the Plant Manager of the CLI Dearborn Plant arsenic good arsenic connected the CLI Leadership Team, I witnessed firsthand the company’s tremendous potential,” said DQS CEO Joshua Morris successful a Wednesday quality release. “Our extremity is to physique connected CLI’s beardown instauration portion investing successful the people, facilities, and expanded services our clients need.”

The CLI acquisition is portion of a multi-year pivot for DQS. DQS was primitively launched arsenic Detroit Quality Staffing, an employment bureau focused connected manufacturing workforce solutions. However, implicit the past fewer years it began layering successful security, proscription and warehousing services.

The April 2025 acquisition of Detroit-based McLaren onboarded trucking assets and a 75,000-square-foot acold retention facility, on with 2 decades of automotive proviso concatenation enactment experience. With these acquisitions, DQS present offers analyzable cross-border and inbound-to-manufacturing logistics.

“CLI has ever been execution-driven and customer-focused,” said Brad Constantini, president and proprietor of CLI. “Joining DQS nether the enactment of CEO Joshua Morris is simply a strategical measurement that expands our capabilities and scope portion preserving the subject and civilization that specify CLI.”

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