Redwood Acquires Strive Logistics

Acquisition creates full-service logistics offering for the transportation marketplace

Redwood Logistics (“Redwood”), a strategically-integrated North American logistics company is acquiring Strive Logistics (“Strive”). The combination creates a technology-focused, that is both a top-15 truck broker and an emerging multimodal logistics provider with over $1 billion in freight under management.

Strive provides non-asset multimodal third party logistics solutions with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Austin, Texas. Combining Strive’s freight management and multimodal brokerage capabilities, proprietary LoadRunner Transportation Management System, with Redwood’s scale, integrated model, enterprise sales team, transportation execution creates an innovative, full-service logistics offering for the transportation marketplace.

“Strive has made significant investments in both its people and its proprietary technology, and we are very excited to welcome the Strive team and its technology to the Redwood family,” Mark Yeager, CEO of Redwood said. “We see this as a major step in establishing Redwood as an industry leader and a transformative force in the marketplace.”

Redwood President Todd Berger added, “We are focused on bringing next generation, tech-driven solutions so that our customers can continue to realize cost savings and efficiencies and achieve their shipping goals. Strive’s high caliber team, blue chip customer base, focus on technology, geographic reach, and the clear similarities in how we work to serve our customers make Strive the perfect merger candidate. 

The combined company will operate under the Redwood brand, and Strive CEO Ben Greene, President Jon Provus, and the rest of Strive’s management team will be joining the Redwood organization.  “Redwood Logistics is the ideal partner for Strive due to our compatible cultures and shared focus on addressing our customers’ most critical logistics challenges through the effective combination of people and technology,” Strive’s Greene said. “We are excited to join the Redwood team and look forward to working together to continue growing the combined business.”

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