Crystal rectangular financial tombstone, featuring a wavy top, marking the acquisition by Yamaha Motor Corporation of Fort George Island Marina in Jacksonville, Florida. (23AKL135)
The transportation-themed deal toys shown here take inspiration from planes, freighters, boats, buses, drones, and more. The industry also utilizes commemoratives for service awards and operator certifications.
Crystal rectangular financial tombstone, featuring a wavy top, marking the acquisition by Yamaha Motor Corporation of Fort George Island Marina in Jacksonville, Florida. (23AKL135)
Crystal deal tombstone, featuring a cutout of a truck cab, recognizing he consolidation and recapitalization of RPM Group. The Edison, New Jersey-based company provides warehousing and transportation services primarily in the agricultural sector. (24AKL112)
Crystal deal toy, featuring photo of a tractor-trailer, marking the acquisition of Taylor Industries, a trucking carrier focused on the tire and auto industries. (23AZH183)
Lucite deal tombstone, featuring a cutout of a chemical tanker, commemorating the launch of Martime Logistics Equity Partners. MLEP acquires and operates secondhand chemical tankers. (23AKL015)
Crystal deal tombstone, featuring a cutout of train cars, recognizing the sale of a stake in German railcar and wagon leasing company VTG. (22LJW147)
Lucite tombstone recognizing the acquistion of Empire Emergency Apparatus, a Western New York-based provider of emergency vehicle equipment and customizations. (24AZH242)
Crystal financial tombstone, with a helicopter design based on the transaction code name, marking the acquisition of DealerClub. DealerClub is a digital platform designed to facilitate automotive dealer-to-dealer transactions. (25AKL060)
Crystal financial tombstone marking the acquisition of Lone Star Paving, an Austin-based asphalt manufacturing and paving company. (25AKL008)
Crystal deal tombstone marking the acquisition of Texas-based XBL Holdings, including subidiaries Xcel Bulk Logistics and XBL Industrial Materials. In additiona to tractors and trailers, the transaction included 10 mobile storage silos, and 11 terminal and satellite locations. (25AZH014)
You’ll find beginning with the galleries on this page images of over 200 financial tombstones from the transportation sector. The deals commemorated here represent a full range of transportation modes and services. You’ll see deal toys featuring cars, airplanes, buses, railroads, trucks, motorcycles, subway systems, helicopters, light and passenger rail, passenger ships—to name just a few.
You’ll also find a number of deal toys with designs that play off many of the trappings commonly associated with the transportation industry. These include, for example, tombstone designs featuring highway signs, steering wheels, propellors, compasses, airline tickets, shipping containers, tunnels, traffic lights, tollbooths, port facilities, and parking lots.
You’ll recognize among these deal tombstones many of the sector’s highest-profile companies and players. These include international brands such as J.B. Hunt, Daimler, Airbus, Boeing, CMA CGM, Lyft, Kerry Logistics, HMM, Danaos, Expedia, Hyundai, United, Maersk, General Motors, Air Canada, and United.
But the deal toy galleries here also highlight a number of less prominent players and deals from the transportation space. Those include the acquisition of a firm specializing in airline shopping data; Series B financing for a SaaS provider for connected cars; the acquisition of an Austrian manufacturer of headlight systems; the initial public offering for an Australian luxury car dealer; and the acquisition of a Texas-based company specializing in automatic tire inflation systems for trailers.
The galleries also feature designs that recognize deals outside the transportation sector, ones that nevertheless have relevant themes. These deal tombstones include, for instance, a bicycle-themed design celebrating the sale of a group of Dutch hotels; one with a tram theme marking several transactions in the Swiss telecom sector; and a Roman galley-inspired piece commemorating a landmark media transaction.
Finally, there are pieces included here that are unrelated to any financial transaction. These commemorate achievements in the sector. They include the surpassing of a user milestone for a public transportation app, and of a growth milestone for a corporate intermodal fleet.
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