TNT Express

TNT Express was a European parcels company. It ran a road-and-air network for time-definite delivery, the overnight and next-day service businesses use for documents and goods that have to arrive on a clock. In Europe that integrated express business has only a few networks. TNT was one of them.

UPS tried to buy TNT Express. The European Commission blocked the purchase. The concern was the express market shippers use when they need a guaranteed delivery across the continent. Removing TNT as an independent network would have left those shippers with fewer companies able to offer that service. The library records the outcome as won by the plaintiff, the block.

This profile is TNT Express at the time of that decision. It describes the block. It does not fold TNT into a later owner's story. A business shipping parcels across Europe was the customer who kept an independent TNT because the Commission said no to UPS.

Pan-European express delivery is the market, the time-definite service rather than ordinary mail.

The Commission prohibited UPS from buying TNT Express.

The library status is won by the plaintiff, matching that prohibition.

Corporate shippers buying overnight delivery across several countries were the customers with a short list of networks.

A smaller firm posting a single urgent parcel uses the same networks, usually through a price the integrator sets for that lane.