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Brambles Limited is the ultimate holding company of the Brambles Group (Brambles) and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Brambles is a supply-chain logistics group specializing in the pooling of unit-load equipment and associated services. The company focuses on the outsourced management of pallets, crates and containers.〔http://www.brambles.com/about-brambles〕 As at 30 June 2014 Brambles employed more than 14,000 people and owned approximately 470 million pallets, crates and containers through a network of about 850 service centres.〔"About Brambles" http://www.brambles.com/about-brambles〕 ==History== Brambles traces its history to 1875, when Walter Bramble established a butchery business in Newcastle, north of Sydney, Australia, the operations of which he gradually expanded into transport and logistics. Brambles first listed in Australia in 1954, as W E Bramble & Sons Limited and entered the pallet pooling business in 1958 through the purchase of the Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool (CHEP), from the Australian Government. This same year the company changed its name to Brambles Industries Limited and moved its head office from Newcastle to Sydney. In the years that followed, Brambles entered a number of new sectors including the waste management sector in 1970, through its ''Cleanaway'' business and the record management sector in 1979 through its ''Recall'' business.〔"History" http://www.brambles.com/about-brambles/history〕 In 1975, Brambles formed a joint venture with UK company Guest Keen & Nettlefold (GKN), to establish the ''CHEP'' business in the UK. In the subsequent years, the ''CHEP'' business expanded throughout continental Europe, US and Asia and a second joint venture, this time for the ''Cleanaway'' business, was formed between the two companies. In 2001, the support services activities of GKN (which included interest in ''CHEP'' and ''Cleanaway'') were merged into a separate company, Brambles Industries PLC (listed on the London Stock Exchange) which then entered into a dual-listed company structure with Brambles Industries Limited.〔 In 2006, Brambles streamlined its operations to focus on its pallet pooling business, ''CHEP'' and its record management business, ''Recall''. To this end, the company’s Australian waste management business, ''Cleanaway Australia'' and its ''Brambles Industrial Services'' business were sold to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for about A$1,200 million.〔(Cleanaway is final Brambles sell-off ), ''Daily Telegraph, 1 July 2006.〕 Then the Company sold ''Cleanaway UK'' to Veolia of France in a £651 million deal.〔 Subsequently, Following these divestments, Brambles unified its Australian and British-listed entities into a single entity, Brambles Limited, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.〔(Brambles ditches London listing ) The Telegraph, 30 November 2005〕 In 2013, Brambles became focused on the provision of equipment pooling solutions following the demerger of the ''Recall'' information management business, which became owned by Recall Holdings Limited, a separate company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and independent of the Brambles Group.〔"Recall Demerger Announcement" http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20131218/pdf/42lpjdrf8lg1fp.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brambles Limited」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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