Our History

The Toll business was founded by Albert Toll in 1888. Commencing his transporting company in Newcastle (two hours north of Sydney NSW Australia), Albert and his team began by hauling coal. The business grew and then expanded into diversified mining and manufacturing industries.

The growth of the business in the 1960's led to Toll commencing international freight forwarding services. Our involvement in this sector of the supply chain was prior to the introduction of sea containers and wide bodied aircraft.

In 1986 Toll was sold to a management buyout team, led by current Managing Director Paul Little and Toll's first Chairman Peter Rowsthorn. Toll was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange ASX in 1993 and has been a high-performing growth share from this time.

Since listing on the ASX, Toll has progressively built and grown its unique logistics model in response to increasing customer demand for a complete end-to-end logistics solution. These solutions incorporate the critical components of operational expertise, scale, diversity of services and technology capabilities.

Today, Toll is one of the Asian region's leading providers of integrated logistics services.

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