Share Logistics Secures its Future in Freight and Logistics with Sale to Groupe BBL

Founded in 2008 through a Management Buy Out and led by Jan Crezee and a team of highly experienced managers, Share Logistics is a major air and ocean freight forwarder and logistics provider. It offers a complete range of door-to-door logistics to clients including global blue-chip companies and SMEs. The company employs approximately 250 professionals across 16 European offices in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, and France and six offices in the U.S.A. and Brazil. Its combined group revenue is close to €230 million. The founder of Share Logistics was looking to secure the company’s future, initiating a sale process to find a new long-term shareholder.

Groupe BBL, founded in 1997, is a French logistics service provider in the Contract Logistics, Overseas Transport, Road Transport & Groupage, and Customs & Compliance Services segments. Its strategy focuses on the coordination of highly specialized and self-driven teams committed to serving their customers’ supply chain. Between 2017 and 2022, Groupe BBL’s employee base grew from 440 to 1,450 and its annual revenue rose from €121 million to €600 million, reflecting organic growth and inorganic growth through acquisitions.

Seeking to be the leading logistical service provider in its verticals, Share Logistics was the ideal acquisition fit with its unrivalled local knowledge and experience in a wide range of verticals.

Together, Share Logistics and Groupe BBL share the same fundamentals: a passion for complex and time critical logistics solutions and growing as a family business focused on employee expertise and engagement. Share Logistics adds new countries to Groupe BBL’s overseas transport network building a strong Euro-Mediterranean network and its solid presence in the USA and Brazil will strongly impact the export and import of goods in transatlantic trade lanes both in air and sea freight. Furthermore, Share Logistics brings additional vertical industry expertise, e.g., Live Events, Soft Commodities, Pharmaceutical and Industrial Projects, reinforcing Groupe BBL’s service offering.

The global IMAP partners proved highly valuable to IMAP Netherlands, who advised Share Logistics throughout the sales process, in identifying and communicating with international buyers, with the team from Degroof Petercam - IMAP France finding the perfect buyer in Groupe BBL.