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Freight firms join Irish business elite

[ October 3, 2022   //   ]

Toga Group has been named as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies in the Deloitte Ireland awards, in association with Bank of Ireland. The global audit firm said that Toga, which comprises Toga Freight and Toga Customs, had demonstrated superior business performance for the third consecutive year.

This is the first year where the awards programme returned as an in-person event following the pandemic, with a ceremony in Dublin.

Ireland’s Best Managed Companies Awards programme promotes and recognises excellence in Irish/Northern Irish owned and managed companies. Entrants compete for the designation in a rigorous process that evaluates the calibre of their management abilities and practices in addition to the strategy, capability, innovation, culture and financial performance of their companies.

Toga group chief executive Martin Gately said: “Having first achieved this award before Covid in early 2020, it is true recognition of the careful path our management team has taken and the strategies we used to navigate through the difficult times of the Covid Pandemic and the Brexit transitions.”

Toga Group was founded in 1978 by the late Peter Toner and the current managing director, Martin Gately, the name comprising the first two letters of each surname.

Employing over 50 staff in two locations in Dublin, it offers freight and customs clearance services to many of Ireland’s largest companies and is amongst the largest groupage operators between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.

Toga works with nine partner depots in the UK and eight European partners as well as loading weekly from Turkey, Switzerland and Shanghai, resulting in around 150 trailers and containers of mixed palletised shipments arriving in its Dublin transit facility each week.

North County Dublin Ace Express Freight has meanwhile been awarded the Deloitte award, for the 14th year in a row, giving the family-owned company Platinum status.

Founded in 1989, Ace Express has grown to 150 staff and contractors, 235,000sq ft of owned warehouse space and a nationwide distribution network in Ireland and the UK.

Chief executive Philip Tracey, said: “In the last year we have invested considerable additional resources in staff, facilities and training to ensure that we are best positioned to exploit the opportunities ahead within our core UK – Ireland business. We have scaled up our customs and compliance team to enable growth, and we have concentrated on streamlining our express and overnight groupage and full load services to and from the UK, reducing lead times, increasing reliability, and improving consistency.”

“We have achieved a lot this year, and our Deloitte Best Managed Company Award is extremely well deserved when you consider the enormous challenges we have overcome.”

“Only 136 companies in the whole of Ireland have been selected to join Ireland’s Best Managed Companies network this year, and we are one of only a handful that remain in the prestigious Platinum Club.

“This award is a testament to our people, how we supported and inspired each other, how we innovated and adapted to deliver for our customers, how we worked together to get the job done.”

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