The Rise and Rise of the Integrators: Part Three

In the final installment of his in-depth article, Paul Jackson, chairman of Triangle Management Services, brings us up to the modern day.

By the mid-1980s, TNT was firing on all four cylinders and investing 18 % in Airborne, a US-based freight forwarder with an overnight US air network – seen at the time as a move of genius. However, Abeles was thwarted by US regulations against foreign ownership of airlines and a determined management who awarded themselves ludicrous “golden parachutes” – high-value termination contracts in the event of takeover.

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The Rise and Rise of the Integrators: Part Two

Post & Parcel has published the second part of the piece written by Paul Jackson, chairman of Triangle Management Services. In this part, he is looking into the history of the express industry.

By 1980, TNT had decided that the best way of securing the intra-Europe overnight door-to-door market was on an agency basis. A number of European distribution companies were appointed to act as TNT agents, but the concept, which went under the banner of Europfast, lacked the necessary “closed system” and left TNT’s European quest in a moribund condition.

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The Rise and Rise of the Integrators: Part One

Triangle Management Services chairman Paul Jackson explains In Post & Parcel how the foundations of today’s multi-billion dollar global express industry were laid in post-war Australia.

It was in Australia, in 1946, that Ken Thomas and others formed TNT (Thomas Nationwide Transport), offering fast interstate delivery. In 1950, Hungarian refugee, Peter Abeles (later Sir Peter, 1924-1999), and partner George Rockey, started Alltrans, which in 1967 merged with TNT and Peter Abeles became the CEO.

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