C.H. Robinson Worldwide
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NASDAQ: CHRW NASDAQ-100 Component DJTA Component S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Transportation |
| Founded | Grand Forks, North Dakota (1905) |
| Founder | Charles Henry Robinson |
| Headquarters | Eden Prairie, Minnesota, U.S. |
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Key people
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John Wiehoff (Chairman and CEO) |
| Revenue |
 US$13.47 billion (2015) |
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US$858.31 million (2015) |
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US$509.69 million (2015) |
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| Total assets |
 US$3.18 billion (2015) |
| Total equity |
US$1.15 billion (2015) |
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Number of employees
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13,159 (2015) |
| Website | www |
C.H. Robinson is a Fortune 500 provider of multimodal transportation services and third-party logistics (3PL). The company offers freight transportation, transportation management, brokerage and warehousing. It offers truckload, less than truckload, air freight, intermodal, and ocean transportation.
The company is headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN, with more than 280 offices and over 11,500 employees in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. The company has contractual relationships with over 66,000 transportation companies, including motor carriers, railroads, air freight, and ocean carriers. The company also provides services including supply chain analysis, freight consolidation, core carrier program management, and information reporting. C.H. Robinson also has a brand, Robinson Fresh, through which it engages in buying, selling, and marketing fresh produce and products. Robinson Fresh buys and sells fresh produce to grocery retailers, restaurants, produce wholesalers, and foodservice distributors through a network of independent produce growers and suppliers.
C.H. Robinson handled 14.3 million shipments and worked with more than 46,000 customers in 2014. C.H. Robinson's transportation of goods accounts for about 94% of its gross net revenues with the remainder coming from sourcing and marketing fresh produce.
C.H. Robinson is a Fortune 500 company and is consistently ranked by Fortune and CNN as one of the world’s Most Admired Companies in Trucking, Transportation, Logistics. It has been on the Fortune 500 list every year since 2002, and from 2011 to 2015, C.H. Robinson was ranked the Top 3PL by Inbound Logistics.
The company has consistently been recognized for its workplace and employee benefits, and was named the No. 2 Large Company in the 2014 Best Places to Work ranking by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. C.H. Robinson has been named a Top 10000 Large Company in Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s Best Places to Work rankings every year since 2006. In 2013, the company earned a spot on Top Workplaces’ Top 150–National Top Workplaces 2013. The Star Tribune has recognized C.H. Robinson as a Top Workplace in several of the past 10 years, and in 2014 recognized the company as a “workplace achiever.”
The company’s work with nonprofits and other charity and community causes has also earned numerous recognitions, including selection as a finalist for the Minnesota Business Magazine 2015 Long-Term Achievement Award for “demonstrating a long-term commitment (at least 10 years) to positively impacting the state’s community of nonprofits or other worthy causes.” In 2014, Minnesota Business Magazine awarded its Workplace Giving Campaign Award to C.H. Robinson. The company also received a Hunger Hero Award from Second Harvest Heartland in 2014, recognizing C.H. Robinson’s “compassionate and transformational impact on those who are hungry in the heartland.”
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