Toll’s takeovers man to go next year

Stephen Stanley, the man Paul Little entrusted with Toll’s vaunted takeover strategy over the past decade, will leave the firm on June 30, the firm says today. Having arrived in 1999 as head of development in his late 30s, Stanley bows out as Director of Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions having been involved with some of the pivotal purchases in the company’s as it grew from a domestic trucking and logistics giant to a global transport and freight forwarding power. There was no mention of a successor.
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Kruger sees no end to Toll acquisitions

Toll Holdings incoming chief executive Brian Kruger will continue with the company’s aggressive acquisition strategy once he officially takes the title in January, he has told ATN.

Kruger, who has already settled into the company’s outgoing boss Paul Little’s office, says the company is proactively looking for acquisition opportunities in the global forwarding sector.

“If we see a good opportunity come on the market and we think we can get value from a market-related synergy or cost-related synergy or utilisation benefits, then we’ll obviously have a look at it,” Kruger says.
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