BRAMBLES INDUSTRIAL SERVICES
- WEYBRIDGE BUSINESS PARK, THORNABY
KT15 2UP WEYBRIDGE, SURREY
Phone: 44 (0) 1932 850 085
Fax: 44 (0) 1932 850 144
www.brambles.com
Short profile:
Brambles (ASX: BXB) is a provider of supply chain and information management solutions through
its two businesses, CHEP and Recall.
Brambles employs more than 12, 000 people in over 45 countries and has total assets of US$5.2 billion as at 31 December 2009.
Detailed description:
1854 Birth of Walter Bramble to Emma and Joseph Bramble, at Crawley, Sussex, UK.
1857-8 Bramble family embarks on the Joshua to sail to Australia and settles in Hinton (near Newcastle), NSW.
1996 Sells Oceaneering share back to US parent
Sells general transport and freight forwarding to Toll Holdings Limited
Establishes CHEP in Austria
Sells Fostrans/Cochez.
1997 CHEP acquires LSM, France, expands into Scandinavia
Brambles acquires Gardemann, Germany
Cleanaway expands into continental Europe, acquires Mabeg GmbH, Germany
Buys back CHEP NZ
Begins sale of Tidewater Port Jackson Marine to Tidewater Inc, US.
1998 Cleanaway acquires SKP, Germany
CHEP acquires Gespalets, Spain
Brambles buys Cockburn Corporation, WA
Acquires Eco-Arc, France, CTD Spain and Serint and Archavia, Italy
CHEP establishes in Brazil, Greece and Hong Kong
Sells Cargowaggon and Seroul
Sells Atlantic Waste in US.
1999 Establishes records management businesses under a global brand Recall.
Buys Short Bros, UK.
2000 Brambles is 125 years old.
2001 GKN plc demerges support services activities and lists them on the London Stock Exchange as Brambles Industries plc. Brambles Industries plc and Brambles Industries Limited, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, are combined in a dual-listed companies' structure.
2005 Brambles announces streamlining of the group and unification of its dual-listed companies structure. This means Brambles will focus on CHEP and Recall and divest all its other businesses -- Cleanaway, Brambles Industrial Services and Regional Businesses.
Sale of Brambles Industrial Services Northern Hemisphere steel mill services operations.
2006 Sale of Interlake, TMF, Cleanaway Germany, TCR, Cleanaway Australian and NZ and BIS Australia, Cleanaway UK and Cleanaway Asia.
Brambles completes unification of dual-listed companies' structure.
Brambles Limited becomes the holding company of the Brambles group of companies.
Keywords:
Global support services group, CHEP, Cleanaway, Recall, Brambles Industrial Services, Interlake, TCR, Eurotainer