Wood deal tombstone commemorating the acquisition of the Stamford, Connecticut-based insurance company Navigators. Navigators serves 22 verticals, including maritime, life sciences, energy, and environmental.
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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.
Wood deal tombstone commemorating the acquisition of the Stamford, Connecticut-based insurance company Navigators. Navigators serves 22 verticals, including maritime, life sciences, energy, and environmental.
(21AKL536)Lucite financial tombstone commemorating the acquisition of bus transportation Nobina. The company operates approximately 4,000 buses in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark.
(22LJW013)Crystal deal toy commemorating a private placement, and IPO, on behalf of Jassim Transport and Stevedoring Company (JTC). JTC is now listed on the Boursa Kuwait.
(21AJH170)Mining truck-themed deal toy.
(21LJW229)Custom crystal deal toy celebrating a combination involving Israel-based Otonomo Technologies. Based in Herzliya, Otonomo provides a cloud-based system for collecting data from connected cars.
(21LSS297)Lucite deal toy celebrating a private placement by Humble & Fume, a North American distributor of cannabis and cannabis accessories. Proceeds will be used for expansion of distribution operations in California.
(21AKL653)Custom crystal commemorative celebrating the attainment of 100,000 containers in J.B. Hunt’s intermodal fleet. The international freight company is headquartered in Lowell, Arkansas.
(21ALJ467)Crystal grand prize awarded at the Army Expeditionary Technology Search (xTechSearch). The competition was won by West Lafayette, Indiana-based Adranos, a developer of solid rocket fuel for missile and space launch systems.
(21ALJ181)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.
