Eddie Stobart Group
Eddie Stobart Group is a British multimodal logistics company, with interests in road haulage, rail freight, deep sea and inland waterway transport systems and deep sea port, inland port and rail connected storage facilities, along with transport, handling and warehousing facilities in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium. The company has its operational head office in Warrington, Cheshire.
| Company type | Private limited company |
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| Industry | Integrated Transport Logistics |
| Founded | circa 1940s (as Eddie Stobart) 23 November 1970 (as Eddie Stobart Ltd.) |
| Founder | Eddie Stobart |
| Headquarters | Warrington, Cheshire, England |
Area served | Belgium, Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Owner | Muller Group (100%) |
| Parent | Culina Group (100%) |
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| Subsidiaries | Stobart Transport & Distribution Ltd Eddie Stobart Group Ltd Eddie Stobart Ltd James Irlam & Sons Ltd Stobart (Ireland) Ltd Eddie Stobart Belgium NV Stobart Rail Freight Ltd |
| Website | www |
Started by Eddie Stobart in the end of the 1940s as an agricultural business in Cumbria, the company has diversified into rail and other logistics activities. Since 2014 it has been either wholly owned or partly owned by an investment entity known as Eddie Stobart Logistics: that entity changed its name to Logistics Development Group in February 2021.
On 1 July 2021, Culina Group purchased 100% of the share capital of GreenWhiteStar Acquisitions Limited (the holding company of the Eddie Stobart Group) for an undisclosed amount from DBAY Advisors (51%) and the Logistics Development Group (49%).