The story
The namesake Thomas Nationwide Transport company was originally established in 1946 with a single truck in Adelaide, South Australia.
On 26 May 2011, TNT Express was spun off from its parent company, TNT NV, being listed on the Euronext Amsterdam. TNT NV subsequently renamed itself PostNL.
In March 2012, UPS announced its intention to acquire TNT Express for US$6.7 billion. However, the deal fell through in January 2013, after it was announced that UPS had failed to obtain permission from the European Commission, and as such, had been blocked on competition grounds.
In April 2015, FedEx announced its agreed intention to buy TNT Express for €4.4 billion, as it looked to expand its operations in Europe. The European Commission launched an investigation into the planned acquisition and on 8 January 2016, approved the deal. The transaction was completed on 25 May 2016.
In June 2017, TNT Express was badly affected by the NotPetya cyber attack, partly because some operations and communication systems were based in Ukraine, where the cyber attack originated. TNT had to operate using manual processes for months creating very large backlogs. Some records were entirely lost.
From Wikipedia’s article on TNT Express, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4