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...He points to best-practice initiatives such as Christie’s recent tie-up with the logistics firm Crozier to run a regular shipping service for arts organisations from London to New York and Hong Kong....
...But several trends could work in the logistics groups’ favour this year. Fear of empty shelves has prompted holiday shoppers to start their gift buying earlier this year....
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...Chief executive Ethan Brown said last month that the company was aiming to develop fully integrated production facilities to reduce labour and logistics costs....
...That logistics capability enabled them to deliver food from places that had never signed up for takeaway apps before the pandemic....
...This reflects its €4.4bn acquisition of Dutch company TNT Express in 2016....
...“If they decide to have a real go, they may get somewhere given they have so much talent, capital, and logistics and delivery expertise,” said Felix Capital founder Frederic Court....
...This will allow Pix to make vehicles near its customers, holding down logistics costs....
...“We’re identifying projects in areas like logistics, packaging and agriculture to further reduce our impact. We look forward to announcing those targets and sharing additional detail in 2020.”...
...The Dutch company was subsequently bought by UPS’s arch-rival FedEx for €4bn in a deal unconditionally approved in January 2016....
...The largest so far has been sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation’s €12.3bn takeover of UK-based logistics company Logicor from Blackstone in June....
...In March ING, the Dutch bank, sold its $120m loan to the oil pipeline and divested its $220m shares in Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company leading the project construction....
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...After the US logistics group had its plans thwarted, its arch-rival FedEx bought TNT....
...Its investments now span hotels, cruise lines, golf clubs, banks and logistics groups, including at least 12 listed companies. It has now struck more than $40bn of deals in little more than two years....
...Restaurants know we are experts at providing transport and logistics, and no one is better positioned to deliver efficiency and cost savings.”...
...The Ireland-based cardboard box manufacturer subsequently merged with Dutch rival Kappa Industries to become Smurfit Kappa in 2005, and returned to the market in 2007....
...US regulators blocked the $3.1bn sale of a lighting unit controlled by Philips, the Dutch conglomerate, to a Chinese buyer over unspecified concerns....
...On any weekday at 4.30am, when most of the business world is still fast asleep, Stef Oud, a senior partner at consultancy Deloitte, tiptoes through his house in the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven, quietly...
...TNT has been reeling since the European Commission blocked UPS’s €5.16bn takeover of the Dutch company two years ago....
...The $300m annual cost savings Ball is planning by 2018 will instead come from cutting costs in administration, sourcing and logistics....
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...He also has considerable knowledge of logistics, through his time as chief executive of Ocean Group, which became Exel, from 1994 to 2000....
...Already, Royal Dutch Shell runs more than $1tn of cash transactions each year through its offices in Krakow in southern Poland....
...Professor Fischer has been studying DSM, a Dutch coalminer that has turned itself into a life sciences and materials science group....
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