Pacer International Announces Organizational Changes

Pacer International, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACR), the non-asset based North America third-party logistics and freight transportation provider, has implemented an organizational realignment designed to support the company’s efforts to streamline operations, strengthen its core intermodal business and increase product integration capabilities across business units. As part of the realignment, the company has made a number of new appointments: Dan Beers has been promoted to chief commercial officer for Pacer’s Intermodal Segment with responsibility for both Pacer Stacktrain and Pacer Global Logistics sales. He will continue to oversee the Ocean Carrier and Mexico business units as well as Customer Support for Pacer Stacktrain. Beers, who reports to Tom Shurstad, president of Pacer International, was formerly executive vice president of Sales for Pacer Stacktrain. Prior to joining Pacer Stacktrain in November 2005, Beers was president of Swift Intermodal and senior vice president of Intermodal, Automotive and North American Carload Sales for the TFM Railroad in Mexico City. Jean Krafft has been promoted to vice president, Sales at Pacer Global Logistics. Krafft, who will continue to report to Beers, was formerly vice president of Strategy and Planning at Pacer Stacktrain. She has more than 27 years of intermodal and transportation experience, 21 of these with Pacer and its predecessor companies. Krafft has held a number of operational and commercial management positions at Pacer, a steamship line, and an intermodal marketing company. She replaces Randy Strutz, formerly chief commercial officer for Pacer Global Logistics, who has left the company to pursue other interests. Derrel Chappell has been promoted to vice president, Domestic, Automotive and Mexico Sales at Pacer Stacktrain. Chappell, who will continue to report to Beers, was formally vice president, Automotive and Mexico Sales at Pacer Stacktrain. Previously, Chappell held a number of management positions in regional sales in Atlanta and Chicago with Pacer and its predecessor companies. Prior to that, he spent 24 years at the Union Pacific Railroad in various sales management positions. Larry Savage has been named president of Pacer’s Highway and Supply Chain Services Group. Savage, who reports to Jeffrey Brashares, chief operating officer for Pacer's Logistics Segment, will lead the development and growth of the company’s Truck Brokerage and Supply Chain Services business operations. Savage brings 25 years of highway and logistics experience to Pacer. He joined Pacer after a decade with Eagle Global Logistics, where he held a number of positions including vice president of Ground Operations, and vice president of the company’s Select Carrier Group. Prior to Eagle Global Logistics, he spent 15 years with Roadway Express in a variety of operations and sales management capacities. Jim Ward has been named chief information officer for Pacer International and reports to Mike Uremovich, chairman and CEO of Pacer International. Ward’s appointment will accelerate Pacer’s ability to advance information system improvements and integration across all business units. Previously, Ward was acting CIO of Pacer International. Before joining Pacer in April 2007, he held CIO positions at Inchcape Shipping Services, Norton Lilly International, and Clark Steel. David Hoppens has been promoted to vice president, Corporate Marketing for Pacer International. Hoppens will report jointly to Tom Shurstad, president of Pacer International, and Jeffrey Brashares, chief operating officer for Pacer's Logistics Segment. This newly created marketing function will improve the company’s ability to provide more coordinated marketing communications, and build more integrated products that cross all Pacer business units. Previously, Hoppens was vice president, Marketing at Pacer Stacktrain. Before joining Pacer in 2002, Hoppens held sales and marketing management positions with iFLEET.net and CSX Intermodal. "While the company’s new appointments consolidate work functions across the organization, Pacer will maintain separate and distinct wholesale and retail channels of sale. Both channels are important to our success, and we look forward to fully realizing their potential,” said Tom Shurstad, president of Pacer International. "Growth at Pacer continues through our ongoing investments in operational and organizational improvements,” said Mike Uremovich, chairman and CEO of Pacer International. "These organizational improvements will help us strengthen our intermodal business and allow us to better develop and integrate our portfolio of logistics services.” ABOUT PACER INTERNATIONAL Pacer International, a leading non-asset based North America third-party logistics and freight transportation provider, through its Intermodal and Logistics operating segments, offers a broad array of services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination. The Intermodal Segment offers wholesale services provided by Pacer Stacktrain (cost-efficient, two-tiered rail transportation for containerized shipments) and Pacer Cartage (local trucking), as well as retail services through its Rail Brokerage group (intermodal marketing). The Logistics Segment provides retail truck brokerage, trucking, warehousing and distribution, international freight forwarding, and supply-chain management services. Pacer International is headquartered in Concord, California. Its Intermodal and Logistics operating segments are headquartered in Concord, California, and in Dublin, Ohio, respectively. Web site: www.pacer-international.com.