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| Company type | Private (Société Anonyme) |
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| Predecessor | Compagnie Générale Calberson(1904–1995) |
| Founded | 1904; 121 years ago (1904) inLe Havre, France |
| Founder | Émile Calberson,Guy Crescent |
| Headquarters | Levallois-Perret[1] ,France |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Marie-Christine Lombard(CEO) |
| Revenue |  11.3 billion euros(2024)[2] |
| Owner | SNCF (100 %) |
Number of employees | 53,000 |
| Parent | SNCF Group(2020–) SNCF Logistics(2015–2020) SNCF Geodis(2006–2015) |
| Subsidiaries | Geodis USA, Geodis BM, Geodis Calberson, Geodis Logistics, Geodis Wilson |
| Website | https://geodis.com/ |
Geodis S.A. is a Frenchmultinational grouping togetherlogistics, parcel androad haulage companies in full and part loads, and freight forwarding with the acquisition ofTNT's Freight Forwarding division (TFM). It employs 53,000 people and is present in 166 countries.[3][4] Its Chairman isMarie-Christine Lombard.[5] Its head office is inLevallois-Perret, in theGreater Paris area. Its American subsidiary,Geodis USA Inc., is based inNashville, Tennessee, where theGeodis Park soccer stadium is also located.
Geodis S.A. is a 100% subsidiary ofSNCF. It was one of the main subsidiaries of theSNCF Logistics division, which grouped together the SNCF group's road and rail freight transport and logistics activities, from 2008 to 2020. In 2020, SNCF Logisitics will split into three companies: Geodis Group,Ermewa (sold toCDPQ) andRail Logistics Europe.
In 1904,Transports Rapides Calberson was created in Le Havre, renamedSociété des Transports Routiers Calberson in 1920.[6]
On December 20, 1995,Compagnie Générale Calberson absorbed Bourgey Montreuil (BM), SCETA Transport and SCETA International, adopting the new name Geodis Group.[7]
In June 1996,SNCF announced that it was reducing its stake in Geodis from 72% to 42%.[8] By decree of August 20, 19961, the group was privatized. It was then restructured into four divisions: Logistics, Overseas, Parcel Delivery and Road haulage.[9]
In April 2008, SNCF launched its first takeover bid to acquire Geodis in its entirety (it held 42.37% at the time).[10]
In December 2008, Geodis acquired IBM Global Logistics,IBM's global logistics management platform. At the same time, IBM signed a long-term contract with Geodis, worth one billion euros a year, to provide logistics services for the American giant.[11][12][13]
In summer 2012,Marie-Christine Lombard, then head of Dutch express groupTNT Express, was approached bySNCF. In October 2012, she was appointed CEO of Geodis. She replaces Jean-Louis Demeulenaere, who between 2008 and 2012 made a series of acquisitions that enabled the group to expand internationally, broaden its service offering and grow sales, notably through the acquisition of IBM's logistics management platform, considered by the market to be the first Fourth Party Logistics (4PL) service offering deployed in Europe, and giving birth to the group's fifth business line, Geodis Supply Chain Optimisation.
In August 2015, Geodis acquired the US logistics companyOzburn-Hessey Logistics, with sales of $1.2 billion and 8,000 employees, for around $800 million.[14][15]
In October 2020,SNCF Logistics, the parent company of Geodis, completed the acquisition of Pekaes, a Polish company with 200 employees, 20 local branches, 3 rail terminals and 6 logistics warehouses.[16]
As of January 7, 2022, still reeling from the consequences of theCovid-19 pandemic on its accounts, SNCF is nevertheless considering external growth operations (to strengthen its Geodis subsidiary). At the end of January, at its last Board of Directors meeting, SNCF indicated that it was a candidate to acquire the American freight forwarder Pilot Freight Services, positioned mainly in road haulage.[17]
In May 2022, Geodis strengthens its position in the logistics and e-commerce sectors in South-East Asia by acquiring Singapore's Keppel Logistics for 53 million euros.[18]
In August 2022, Geodis acquires the US express transport company Need It Now Delivers in order to increase its presence in the US road freight market.[19] In March 2023, Geodis acquires German carrier Trans-o-flex.[20]
Geodis groups together 5 main activities:[21]
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