Lucite tombstone marking an investment in Team Drive-Away. The Shawnee, Kansas-based firm provides truck and specialized equipment drive-away delivery services.
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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.
Lucite tombstone marking an investment in Team Drive-Away. The Shawnee, Kansas-based firm provides truck and specialized equipment drive-away delivery services.
(6AKL747)Custom deal toy recognizing the acquisition of AA Asphalting, and asphalt and concrete restoration firm located western Washington state. The purchaser was Seattle-based Montlake Capital.
(6ALR630)Nautical-themed deal commemorative recognizing an agreement made by the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC).
(6LJWB03)Billboard-themed custom Lucite commemorating the sale of LaFoy Outdoor Advertising. The Chattanooga, Tennessee-based firm was acquired by Fairway Outdoor Advertising, a South Carolina company.
(6AKL723)Shipping-themed corporate tombstone recognizing the sale of a stake in Associated British Ports. ABP operates 21 ports in England, Scotland, and Wales.
(5LAC834)Custom Lucite recognizing the sale by Aerospace and defense firm Esterline of its subsidiary Eclipse Electronic Systems.
(5AKL518)Custom Lucite commemorating the acquisition of New Zealand firm HEB Construction. HEB services include civil engineering and roadwork.
(5SSC866)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.
