M&A Deal Summary

Echo Acquires Advantage Transport

On July 6, 2011, Echo acquired transportation company Advantage Transport

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Echo’s 5th transaction in the Transportation sector.
  • This is Echo’s 6th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Echo’s 1st transaction in Arizona.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2011-07-06
Target Advantage Transport
Sector Transportation
Buyer(s) Echo
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Advantage Transport

Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Advantage Transport, Inc. is a provider of transportation services.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Echo

Chicago, Illinois, United States
Category Company
Founded 2005
Sector Transportation
Employees2,736
Revenue 2.5B USD (2020)
DESCRIPTION

Echo is a provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. Echo maintains a proprietary, web-based technology platform that compiles and analyzes data from its network of over 50,000 transportation providers to serve 35,000 clients across a wide range of industries and simplify the critical tasks involved in transportation management. Echo was founded in 2005 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 17
Sector (Transportation) 5 of 14
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 6 of 17
State (Arizona) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 6 of 17
Year (2011) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-06-15 Raytrans Distribution Services

Matteson, Illinois, United States

Raytrans Distribution Services, Inc. is a transportation brokerage firm.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-12-07 Trailer Transport Systems

Rochester, New York, United States

Trailer Transport Systems (TTS) is an Intermodal Marketing Company.

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