Toll Group

Toll Holdings Limited

Company type	Private
Industry	Transportation Logistics
Founded	Newcastle, Australia, (1888 (1888))
Founder	Albert Toll
Headquarters	Melbourne , Australia
Key people	Brian Kruger (MD) Ray Horsburgh ( Chairman)
Services	Integrated Service Provider
Revenue	A$8.8 billion  (2014)
Net income	A$293.1 million  (2014)
Number of employees	40,000+ (2014)
Parent	Japan Post Holdings
Divisions	Toll Global Logistics Toll Global Forwarding Toll Resources & Government Logistics Toll Global Express Toll Domestic Forwarding
Website	http://www.tollgroup.com

Toll's 10-tonne electric truck by Smith Electric. It has a range of up to 200km and a top speed 95km/h. It runs on an 80 kWh lithium-ion battery, requires 5-6 hours overnight charge, and is zero-emission.

Toll 737 aircraft.

Toll Group, part of Japan Post, is a transportation and logistics company with operations in road, rail, sea, air and warehousing. With an Asia Pacific focus, Toll operates a network of 1,200 sites across 50 countries, providing customers with global reach.

Operating divisions

An A F Toll marked Albion vehicle, when the business operated out of Sydney, Newcastle and Cessnock.

Toll Shipping's Tasmanian Achiever roll-on roll-off vessel

The Toll Group has five operating divisions:

Toll Global Forwarding

Toll Global Forwarding provides international freight forwarding and supply chain management services that range from complex supply chain services through to port-to-port freight forwarding movements.

Toll Global Logistics

Toll Global Logistics provides specialist contract logistics. It offers transport, warehousing and value-added services including: freight transport services, distribution services, warehousing, cross docking, wharf services, supply chain services and finished parts logistics.

Toll Resources & Government Logistics

Toll Resources & Government Logistics provides logistics and supply chain services to the oil and gas, mining, energy and government and defence sectors in Australia, Asia and Africa.

Toll Global Express

Toll Global Express provides parcel and courier delivery services; freight transport services such as local and interstate linehaul movements; distribution services such as pick, pack and delivery; data and document services such as document management, data warehousing and print management services; and aircraft and airport services including ground and cargo handling, and aircraft charter.

Toll Domestic Forwarding

Toll Domestic Forwarding provides domestic road, rail and sea freight forwarding within Australia and New Zealand.

History

Toll was founded by Albert Toll in 1888 as a coal haulage business in Newcastle, Australia—hauling coal with horse and cart. At the time of Albert Toll's death in 1958 at the age of 95, he was operating a fleet of trucks in five locations.

In 1959 the Toll business was purchased by National Minerals. In 1962 it became part of mining conglomerate Peko Wallsend, which used Toll for all its transport activities. Under Peko Wallsend, Toll was developed into a national carrier. The company subsequently underwent a name change to Toll-Chadwick, and its new owners sought to integrate its businesses and expand into containerised shipping. By the mid-1980s, Toll-Chadwick had grown into one of Australia’s biggest transport operations outside the capital cities.

In 1986 Toll was sold to a management buyout team led by Managing Director Paul Little and Toll's first Chairman Peter Rowsthorn. In 1993 Toll listed on the ASX.

In 2010 Toll commenced the One Toll Program which integrated operations under the One Toll umbrella. Externally the program drove the common external appearance and branding, and internally it drove common processes, culture and values.

In February 2015, Japan Post, the state-owned postal service operator, made a A$6.5 billion cash takeover bid for the company, an offer Toll's board unanimously recommended. The transaction was completed in May 2015.

Timeline

• 1888 The company was founded in Newcastle, Australia.
• 1960 After the death of its founder, Albert Toll, the company was sold to National Minerals Limited.
• 1985 The company became Toll Transport
• 1986 A management buyout team led by Paul Little and Peter Rowsthorn takes control of the company.
• 1993 Listed as a public company on the Australian Stock Exchange
• 1995 Various acquisitions of Australian transport companies, including parts of Brambles Transport, JN Transport
• 1998 Purchases Interstate Parcel Express Company.
• 1999 Sales growing by 52%, attaining major contracts with the distributors of Coca Cola
• 2001 Acquired Finemore Holdings
• 2001 Acquired Autotrans Car Transport based in Western Australia
• 2001 Acquired Wesfarmers Transport based in Western Australia
• 2002 Partnership with Patrick Corporation to acquire National Rail (now Pacific National)
• 2003 Acquired New Zealand rail and trucking group Tranz Rail (now Toll NZ), and Tasmanian rail operator TasRail as part of Pacific National.
• 2005 Acquired New Zealand trucking company JD Lyons.
• 2006 Acquired Singaporean logistics company SembCorp Logistics (SembLog)
• 2006 Acquired Patrick Corporation after a long and acrimonious takeover battle.
• 2008 Acquired Hong Kong based freight forwarder BALtrans Holdings as part of the company's continued expansion into Asia.
• 2008 Acquired United Carriers based in New Zealand,
• 2008 Sold Toll NZ's rail operations to New Zealand Government.
• 2008 Acquired Gluck
• 2008 Acquired Extra Transport
• 2009 Acquired BIC Logistics India
• 2009 Acquired Perkins Shipping based in Darwin
• 2009 Acquired Deltec, Kwikmail and Skynet
• 2009 Acquired Express Logistics Group
• 2010 Acquired ST-Anda Logistics.
• 2010 Acquired Summit Logistics International
• 2010 Acquired DPEX Group
• 2010 Acquired WT Sea Air Group based in the United Kingdom
• 2010 Acquired Genesis Forwarding Group based in the United Kingdom
• 2011 Managing Director, Paul Little retires
• 2012 Brian Kruger takes over the role as Managing Director
• 2013 Acquired Tasmanian freight forwarding service Trans Bass from Linfox
• 2013 Toll celebrates 125 years
• 2015 Acquired by Japan Post

Environmental record

Toll is implementing a Smarter Green Program to develop sustainable responses that address their energy needs and to mitigate climate change risks. In the short term they are applying new technologies to reduce their consumption of non-renewable energy sources and to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and in the long term they intend to increase their use of viable renewable energy sources and to develop sustainably.

Toll has a target of reducing their emissions intensity from their Australian based operations by 20% over the ten year period, 2010 to 2020. In a report published in 2013 Toll indicated the trialling of a variety of energy sources including biodiesel blends, natural gas, compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, diesel additives, electric and diesel-electric combinations.

Based on data published in 2013, Toll IPEC has 25 vehicles running on compressed natural gas, Toll Mining Services has 94 dual fuel clean air power systems and five liquefied natural gas systems, Toll IPEC has electric small passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, Toll Transitions has a small fleet of electric / petrol Toyota Prius hybrids, Toll Energy has several AB Triples and Toll has a fleet of high productivity vehicles and Hino hybrid vehicles.

Sponsorship

From 2008 to 2013 the company sponsored the Holden Racing Team.

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