Toll CEO: Co Has Moved On From Possible Tie-Up With Brambles
15 September 2009 - 8:56AM
Dow Jones News
Toll Holdings Ltd. (TOL.AU) Chief Executive Paul Little said
Monday he has moved on from any potential tie-up with Brambles Ltd.
(BXB.AU).
Little said Toll was interested in doing a deal with Brambles,
an Australian company that operates a global pallet business to
transport goods, but that the deal couldn't work without Brambles'
compliance.
"We were only ever interested in Brambles had Brambles been of
the mind that by joining forces with our company that the two could
create a better value offering in the marketplace," he said. "We
believe Brambles are not of that view and we're quite happy to
accept that outcome and move on."
Little said he is looking to grow the company from being an
Australian-focused business into a pan-Asian concern.
Toll's performance in August, he said, has outpaced
expectations, as had been the case in July. The company said last
month that it was "very pleased" with July's performance.
Within five years, Little expects 50% to 60% of the
transportation and logistics company's earnings to come from
offshore operations, he told reporters on the sidelines of a Bank
of America-Merrill Lynch conference in New York.
Little said Toll is "quite ambitious" in its search for
acquisitions that will add scale in the global forwarding business.
That includes air and ocean freight forwarding.
North America, Europe and the Middle East are all regions in
which Toll is "sub scale" in global forwarding, he said.
Toll transports goods by employing road fleets, warehousing,
ships, air freight capacity, ports and rail.
-By Cynthia Koons, 347-522-0894; cynthia.koons@dowjones.com and
Veronica Dagher; 212-416-2261; veronica.dagher@dowjones.com
(Veronica Dagher in New York contributed to this report.)
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