Hub Group
The Firm
Hub Group was founded in 1971, employs nearly six thousand people and drivers, and turns over more than four billion dollars a year from Oak Brook, Illinois. It sells transportation and logistics management rather than any single mode, which is why its purchases cross from final mile delivery into fulfillment and temperature-controlled intermodal.
The December 2023 purchase of Forward Air Final Mile is the one that matters to a courier owner. It bought a residential final mile delivery and installation business focused on big and bulky goods, appliances above all, out of a listed carrier: proof that the delivery businesses changing hands at this level are operating companies with crews and trucks, not contracts reassigned.
A practical note for anyone researching this firm: its own news index renders nothing to a plain fetcher, and the release pages are only reachable through its sitemap or by direct link. An absent newsroom is not an absent record, and it is worth checking the sitemap before concluding a company has published nothing.
What It Buys
Oak Brook, Illinois. A four-billion-dollar Oak Brook logistics company that buys whole delivery businesses rather than route books, including the residential final mile arm of a listed competitor.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
1 deal traced to announcements by Hub Group, 2023, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
Nothing newer has cleared the bar in 32 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is August 6, 2026. A gap past 12 months can mean the firm has slowed, or that it has stopped announcing; treat it as a prompt to check its own newsroom before assuming either.
- Forward Air Final Mile · December 20, 2023
Residential final mile delivery and installation of big and bulky goods, with a focus on appliances.