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Fusion of logistic companies Belgian ECS European Containers and 2XL
the new group will introduce a annual turnover of beyond 400 million euros
May 29, 2017
Logistic groups Belgian ECS European Containers and 2XL have announced that they will proceed to a fusion, operation that is agreed after a month of negotiations between the two companies that are of property respective of the families De Dijcker and Van den Poel. The agreement previews the performance of a fusion for incorporation, with the 2XL that will be absorbed by the ECS that of it will acquire the entire share capital.
and more than thousand dependent, of which the half in the Benelux and the other half in the other European centers of the two societies.
It is ECS that 2XL are anticipate on the markets of the United Kingdom and continental Europe. "If the field of the continuous logistics to manifest difficulty - the managing director of the ECS, Pieter Balcaen has commented, explaining the motivations that have induced the two companies to melt - the objective is to create efficient multimodali solutions to added value for our customers. Moreover our field anticipates an increasing phenomenon of concentration and consolidation of logistics and transport activity. And - it has added Balcaen - not last, there is the Brexit: we want to take advantage mainly of these opportunities for our customers who currently are facing a series of uncertainties and to help them with a supply chain optimized".
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