anonyme industry transport logistics freight forwarding founded 1979 founder norbert dentressangle headquarters lyon 1 france key people herv montjotin ceo norbert dentressangle chairman revenue 3.58 billion 2011 2 net income 64.99 million 2011 2 total assets 2.49 billion 2011 2 total equity 512.30 million 2011 2 website http norbert dentressangle.com a norbert dentressangle lorry norbert dentressangle french pronunciation n b d t s l is a major european transport logistics and freight forwarder . 3 it was founded in 1979 initially concentrating on cross channel transport between france and the united kingdom . in 2007 norbert dentressangle doubled its size and significantly strengthened its position in europe with the acquisition of christian salvesen and in march 2011 it bought the british company tdg . the company reported proforma revenues of 3.8 billion for 2012 . 2 in july 2014 norbert dentressangle announced that it would be acquiring jacobson companies a united states based 3pl for 750 million . jacobson companies was then the third largest 3pl in the world . 4 norbert dentressangle operates from 500 sites in 20 european countries and employs 33 000 people . 5 on 28 april 2015 the us group xpo logistics announced a 3.56 billion 3.24 billion euros deal to acquire norbert dentressangle including acquired debt . 6 the acquisition was completed on 8 june 2015 references edit norbert dentressangle f te l arriv e de son si ge social lyon lyon.mag.com 23 october 2013 a b c d e 2011 annual report pdf . norbert dentressangle . retrieved 27 september 2012 . company description norbert dentressangle . businessweek.com . bloomberg l.p. retrieved 27 september 2012 . norbert dentressangle to buy us based jacobson for 750 mln reuters 31 july 2014 norbert dentressangle our values . us logistics group xpo buying france s dentressangle . business insider . 28 april 2014 . external links edit official website official store this french corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title norbert dentressangle & oldid 721999504 categories companies of francelogistics companiesfrench company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 25 may 2016 at 10 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view