Toll Group – resembling a tragicomedy
Between fantasy and reality
Fridays with Toll Group and its siblings are the best, aren’t they?
You bet.
Particularly at a time when deal-making talk – as we warned you ahead of time earlier this week – returns with a vengeance in transport and logistics (T&L).
Landscape
With the M&A mid-tier logistics market spicing up (say sub-U$1bn in enterprise value), as proved by EV Cargo’s swoop for Dutch group Fast Forward Freight, announced on Wednesday, and rumours in the past 24 hours linking XPO logistics to STG Logistics stateside. The ...
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