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TNT Holdings B.V. (TNT) is an international courier delivery services company with headquarters in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. The firm has fully owned operations in 61 countries and delivers documents, parcels and pieces of freight to over 200 countries. The company recorded sales of €6.68 billion in 2014. Its major competitors include United Parcel Service (UPS), FedEx and DHL. TNT operates its own cargo airline, TNT Airways. TNT's rival FedEx reached an agreement to buy the company in April 2015, which is expected to be completed within the first quarter of 2016. ==History== Shortly after the cessation of hostilities of World War II in Asia, Australian Ken Thomas set up Thomas Nationwide Transport with a single truck.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= History of TNT )〕 At the same time, Hungarian immigrant Peter Abeles had formed ''Alltrans'' with fellow Hungarian immigrant George Rockey. In 1967, Alltrans merged with Thomas Nationwide Transport, and the combined companies became TNT Ltd., operating then in both Australia and New Zealand. Under Abeles' guidance as managing director, TNT quickly expanded, and by the 1980s had established a presence in 180 countries and was termed "the second biggest transport empire in the world, operating by road, rail, sea and air". Expanding globally, by the 1980s the focus was on Europe, and it resultantly became the first transport company to buy its own aircraft, creating the first pan-European overnight service using a dedicated fleet. In 1992 the company co-founded GD Express Worldwide, owning 50% of the organisation, with the other 50% of shares held between partners KPN (Dutch telecoms and postal company) and the state-owned postal companies of Canada, France, West Germany and Sweden. Having floated on the Dutch Stock Exchange in 1994/5, KPN bought TNT in a friendly merger in 1996. This post and parcels focused group then demerged from the telecoms business in 1998, to form TNT N.V. TNT Express was demerged from its parent company on 26 May 2011, taking a listing on the Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchange. TNT N.V. subsequently renamed itself PostNL. On March 19, 2012, UPS announced its intention to acquire TNT Express for $6.7 billion. However, the deal fell through in January 2013 after it was announced that UPS had failed to obtain permission from the European Commission and as such had been blocked on competition grounds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.handyshippingguide.com/shipping-news/major-express-freight-and-logistics-merger-torpedoed-by-european-commission_4284 )〕 In April 2015, FedEx announced its agreed intention to buy TNT Express for €4.4bn ($4.8bn; £3.2bn), as it looks to expand its operations in Europe. The European Commission launched a further investigation into the planned acquisition on 31 July 2015, with a deadline for its decision due by 7 December 2015. Both companies announced they had received a notice of no opposition to the merger from the European Commission on 21 October 2015, and that the sale was expected to be completed within the first half of 2016. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「TNT Express」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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