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THE MARKET
Australia’s strong economic growth has seen
demand for supply chain services soaring, with
freight volumes expected to double before 2020 and
treble by the middle of the next decade. In the last
four years alone the market grew by 18 per cent.
This massive expansion in logistics services also
stretches across the booming Asia Pacific region,
Linfox’s focus of operations.
Since 2002, Linfox’s revenue has risen by 200
per cent to an annualised turnover of $2 billion in
2007. The company expects to continue this pace
of expansion through organic growth and further
strategic acquisitions to complement and extend
the scale, scope and geography of the business.
Linfox provides highly sophisticated supply
chain solutions in 11 countries. Its vision is to be
the supply chain solutions provider of choice
throughout the Asia Pacific region.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Linfox’s increased scale of operations demands that
safety be a key priority. The company’sVision Zero
safety strategy aims to achieve zero fatalities,
injuries, motor vehicle accidents, environmental
exceedances, and zero unsafe behaviour.
This unrelenting focus on safety has reduced
the company’s lost time injury frequency rate by a
massive 39 per cent in just 12months. Linfox safety
programs have also won numerous awards such
as the recent ‘OperationCountdown’ award for road
safety.
Much of Linfox’s recent growth has occurred in
Asia, with rapid expansion in India and China in
particular. In addition to organic growth, strategic
acquisitions have played a key role in business
development.
Linfox’s Asian footprint was substantially
boosted with the purchase of Mayne Logistics in
2003. The acquisition of FCL in 2006 cemented
Linfox’s position in Australia as a key rail freight
forwarder at a time when rail freight is set to boom,
while the addition of Provincial Freightlines
doubled the size of the company’s New Zealand
business. The acquisition of Westgate Logistics in
2007 bolstered Linfox’sAustralian warehouse and
retail operations.
With increasingly complex supply chains, the
development of a sophisticated supply chain
solutions planning capability has won significant
business from major companies across the Asia
Pacific region. Linfox’s Supply Chain Solutions
(SCS)Group provides specialists in IT, supply chain
modelling, warehouse design and financial analysis
to deliver a uniquely skilled support teamfor Linfox
customers.
Linfox’s recent ‘Award for Excellence in Supply
Chain Management and Distribution’ at the
SMART 2007 Conference recognises the
outstanding contribution of the SCS Group’s
expertise in designing a new state-of-the-art
national distribution centre for Kellogg’s in Sydney.
In a continuing focus on delivering value for its
customers, Linfox is developing ‘campus style’
operations in Australian capitals to provide highly
efficient, modern warehousing and distribution
hubs. These facilities, close to ports, railheads and
commercial areas, will generate tremendous
economies of scale for Linfox and its customers.
Linfox’s Pooraka site in Adelaide, which was
opened by South Australian Premier Rann, is the
first campus style operation.
HISTORY
In 1956, Linfox famously consisted of ‘One Man
One Truck’. With Lindsay Fox still involved in the
business he founded, today Linfox Logistics
generates 13,000 jobs, operates a fleet of 5,000
vehicles, with more than 260 operating sites and
more than 1.8million squaremetres ofwarehousing
space.
That growth has been built on consistently high
standards for employees, facilities and customer
service delivery. This unswerving commitment to
standards is demonstrated in the significant
investment in employee training and leading-edge
technology.
Linfox first establishedoperations inAsia in1984.
Today it operates in 11 countries including
Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, China and Hong
Kong. Operations in Vietnam and India have seen
rapidgrowthmore recentlyandLinfoxnowemploys
more than 4,000 people throughout Asia. Key to
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