Freight’s Global 100 Rajendra Bhinge CEO, Tata Strategic Management Group I


ndia’s Tata Group comprises more than 100 operating companies, spanning many business sectors. One subsidiary is a top-10 steel maker, while Tata


Motors is in the top five commercial vehicle manufacturers. The Global Beverages division is the world’s second largest tea company, and Tata Chemicals is the second largest manufacturer of soda ash. The group has operations across more than 80 countries and exports products and services to 85


Bob Bianco President, Menlo Worldwide Logistics


the beginning of the 1990s. Bob Bianco has been there almost from the


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beginning, joining the company in 1992 as a logistics manager, and has been president of the company since 2005, driving its strategy of supply chain engineering to the increasing predilection of large corporations to outsource much of their logistics activities.


enlo is one of the newer logistics concerns, created by US trucking giant Con-Way as the trend for asset-light 3PLs began to emerge at


One of the most highly successful was the GM


Vector joint-venture supply chain management company between Menlo and General Motors which GM later acquired. Another innovation was the Defense Transportation


Co-ordination Initiative, which saw the US Department of Defense outsource a large swathe of its domestic distribution requirements to Menlo. It first won the contract in 2007, which was renewed


this year. Pierre Blayou CEO, SNCF Geodis A


fter joining France’s premier logistics company Geodis in 2001 as its CEO, Pierre Blayou might reasonably have been expected to give way at


the helm after it was fully acquired by its part-parent, state-owned rail company SNCF in 2008. Instead he emerged as CEO of SNCF Geodis and is


now in charge of the group’s entire freight transport and logistics activities. Under his tenure, Geodis embarked on an extremely aggressive expansion plan, largely through several


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prominent acquisitions, including the 2006 purchase of TNT’s freight forwarding activities and taking over FedEx’s French distribution activities in the same year. However, it was the 2008 purchase of IBM Global


Logistics for around €300 million and which saw the US computer giant outsource its logistics operations to Geodis, reportedly in a 10-year deal worth $1 billion. The acquisition of that technology and the people


behind it also gives Geodis the platform to offer a true 4PL product.


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countries. Total revenue in 2010-11 was $83.3 billion. As a result, the Tata group is a key buyer in the


logistics market. Its companies outsource much of their supply chain strategy to another subsidiary, Tata Strategic Management Group. This is led by Rajendra Bhinge, author of the 1990


strategic plan for Tata Industries, and responsible for its implementation. He has more than 25 years’ experience in business, including 14 years at Nelco. He is a director of Tata Johnson Controls Automotive, Infiniti Retail and Oriental Floratech India.


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