During the TPG and TNT years, the company acquired one company after another. After Jet Services in France, it acquired in quick succession TG+ in Spain, Hoau in China, Speedage in India, Mercúrio and Araçatuba in Brazil and LIT Cargo in Chile. TNT also opened up intercontinental routes between Asia and Europe with daily dedicated TNT-owned and leased Boeing 747 flights linking China and Southeast Asia to Dubai and Europe. The acquisitions and new intercontinental routes allowed TNT to facilitate its global Focus on Network’s strategy. Meanwhile, in line with this strategy, the Logistics division was sold off.
At this time, TNT also developed a keen social policy, understanding early on its truely positive impact on business, employees, customers, investors, communities and the planet. In 2002, TNT announced its partnership with the UN World Food Programme, under which it would deploy its people, resources and skills to help WFP in the fight against world hunger. In 2007, TNT launched Planet Me, a programme to reduce the company’s CO2 emissions in a wide variety of ways. TNT consistently ranked first in our industry on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index - a list that tracks sustainability leaders among the largest companies in the world - and achieved the highest score of any company on the DJSI.