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Toga Group partners with Make-a-Wish Ireland
We are thrilled to announce that Toga Group has partnered with Make-A-Wish Ireland to help make a difference in the lives of children facing critical illnesses. This partnership marks an exciting new chapter as we work together to grant wishes and bring joy and hope to these brave children and their families. At Toga Group, we believe in giving back to the community, and this collaboration reflects our commitment to supporting causes that truly matter. Stay tuned for updates


New Trailers for Irish Sea Logistics
The first of two double deckers have entered service this week for our London office of Irish Sea Logistics. These trailers will connect our London, Birmingham and Dublin depots with daily departures in both directions. Despite being used by our UK subsidiary on UK operations, we have chosen our fellow Guaranteed Irish member here in Dublin, Hireco World Ireland to supply and maintain them for us. Keep an eye out for them!


Toga Group Opens Irish Pallet Hub in Birmingham.
Dublin headquartered Toga Group, which comprises freight forwarding, logistics and customs clearance companies in the UK and Ireland, has opened it’s new “Irish Pallet Hub” in Coleshill, Birmingham. The 160,000 sq. ft shared user facility in Hams Hall Distribution Park houses staff from Toga Freight and the Group’s UK subsidiary, Irish Sea Logistics Ltd and has started formal operations today. Speaking of the expansion, Robert Dickinson, Managing Director of Toga Group said;


Toga Appoints UK based Commercial Director
We’re delighted to welcome Paul Mountford to Toga Group. Paul comes with a wealth of experience in the groupage and particularly the Irish market and now assumes overall control of our growth strategies in the UK and will work very closely with our Dublin Freight and Customs divisions. Paul will also drive on growth and expansion of Irish Sea Logistics as that company seeks to expand into the north of England during 2025.


Fleet investment on Toga’s GB to IE route
Following the opening of Toga Group’s UK Hub in Birmingham in November 2024, a significant investment in the route was announced by Toga’s Operations Director, Darragh Toner: “We’re seeking to control our costs more closely that was possible with a 100% sub-contracted fleet working our international line hauls. So we’ve decided to add a fleet of high volume, double-decker trailers that will operate between Birmingham and Dublin depots via the Port of Holyhead.” The SDC traile


Deloitte Best Managed Companies – Gold Award
Robert Dickinson, CEO, Toga Group, receives the award for reaching the Gold Standard of Deloitte Best Managed Companies for 2024


Toga win “Gold” at the Deloitte Ireland’s best Managed Companies Awards 2024
Toga Group announced as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies 2024 Company receives award for fifth time Toga Group, which comprises Dublin based Toga Freight Services Ltd and Toga Customs Services Ltd has been named as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies, the leading business awards programme led by Deloitte. The company, which demonstrated superior business performance for the fifth year, and this year reaching the most coveted gold standard was recognised at an award


Toga Supports Malahide Cricket Club for the 5th Year
Toga Group continues to support local sports and get involved in the community. Whilst Toga Freight is headquartered in South Dublin, where we support local soccer teams, Malahide Cricket Club is in North Dublin, close to where the customs clearance part or our group, Toga Customs Services Ltd, is based. This year it have us huge pride to sponsor the club with some scorers gazebos and parasols for the pavilion bar garden area. It is unclear whether the gazebos are designed to


Toga partners with University College Dublin
We’re thrilled to have partnered with UCD Professional Academy in Dublin to open up an exciting new world of professional development to our staff. 12 staff in 2 of our Dublin offices have already signed up for courses in a diverse range of subjects including AI for Business, Project Management, Social Media Marketing & Book Keeping amongst others. It is the first time Toga have focused on professional development rather than solely “logistics & forwarding training”. Our tea


2nd Apprentice joins Toga on the LAA Apprenticeship Scheme
Our commitment to developing young talent has continued with the addition of Ethan Gernon to our team. Ethan joins as an apprentice freight forwarder and will be starting the first year of the LAA – Logistics Associate Apprenticeship course later this month, which continues for 2 years and involves one day a week in college here in Dublin and the rest of the time paired up with members of our team. Ethan is pictured here on the right alongside Aidan Moroney, Head of Internat


Flying Start for Toga’s Irish Sea Logistics
The first few month’s of trading for Irish Sea Logistics, since being acquired by Toga Group have been exceptionally strong. An average of 8 groupage trailers per week are being loaded for shipping via Holyhead to Toga’s ACP bonded warehouse in Dublin, with another three trailers loading each week for shipping to Northern Ireland. Irish Sea Logistics’ Erith depot is a TSF Bonded warehouse, so all the groupage trailers bound for the Republic of Ireland are consigned to Toga Fr


MultiModal 2024 another roaring success for Toga Group
Team Toga arrived in numbers for this year’s MultiModal Exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham. Following the huge success of MM23, where Toga saw a 5% increase in annual new sales solely from the three day exhibition, it was an obvious choice to increase the size of our stand and get more staff over to help with the large numbers of enquiries. Following some very positive exposure in the trade press recently, due to various acquisitions and new contract wins, Toga had received ov


Toga Freight attend System Alliance Europe AGM in Milan
Europe’s largest groupage network, System Alliance Europe (SAE e.G) gathered their 53 strong membership together on May 16th for their AGM Meeting at the luxurious Hotel dei Cavelleri in Milan, Italy, adjacent to the magnificent Duomo in the centre of this historic city, the members spent a few days getting to know each other and watching presentations from the new members and discussing partnerships with the more established members. The various presentations had the audienc


Toga Freight Services acquires London based Irish Sea Logistics Ltd and gains GB foothold.
It has been announced today that Dublin headquartered Toga Freight Services Ltd has acquired the equity of Irish Sea Logistics Ltd, a London based freight forwarder. The deal represents the 2 nd acquisition by Toga Freight Services Ltd in 2024. Irish Sea Logistics Ltd, as the name suggests, is a specialist forwarder operating between Great Britain and Ireland and is based in Erith, Kent and operates from a customs TSF Bonded warehouse from where groupage trailers are loade


Toga Customs Services say “Cheers” to New Business
A new era at Toga Customs Services has seen some new business arrive to cause “Good Cheer” in the office. The team in Swords have been processing customs clearances for wine and other alcohol products for a number of years, but the arrival of a new retail client has led to a stand alone department being created to handle the increased volumes. With in house experts with many years of experience in these products, Toga Customs is becoming the customs agent of choice for Irish


Toga Group Prepares for MultiModal 2024
Following an unbelievably successful show in MultiModal 2023, Toga will be back in June 2024 with a bigger stand, more staff and more goodies to give away to visitors. We’ve extended our stand in order to accommodate the high level of visitors that we attracted last year. The new, bigger “Toga Family” has over 50 staff at 2 depots in Dublin and we’re thrilled that we’ll be flying over 8 staff on each day to help us on the stand and to discuss the Irish distribution requiremen


Toga Freight acquires Toga Customs Services
Dublin-based Toga Freight Services has acquired the equity of Toga Customs Services. Despite having similar names and working closely together for over 20 years, the two businesses have up to now operated separately and had different shareholders and directors. However, Toga Freight purchased 100% of the shares previously held by Toga Customs directors, Martin Gately and Mark Herridge on 6 March, allowing them to leave the business. Toga Freight Services was founded in 1978 b


Toga Freight joins Italy’s One Express Network
Bologna/Dublin, October 18th, 2023 – One Express, Italy’s number one network for palletised shipments, has appointed Toga Freight Services as their exclusive and sole member in the Republic of Ireland. The appointment completes European coverage for One Express with Italian shippers to Ireland now being able to enjoy a “customs free” transit to the most westerly part of the EU. One Express has become the best Pallet Network in Italy in just 15 years and is now the leading ex


Toga Freight joins System Alliance Europe
Brexit winner Toga Freight Services joins general cargo cooperation System Alliance Europe Düsseldorf/Dublin, 25th September 2023 – System Alliance Europe eG (SAE) is expanding its network to include Toga Freight Services, a renowned, owner-operated logistics company based in Dublin, Ireland. As the 50th member, Toga Freight strengthens the presence of the general cargo cooperation on the Island of Ireland and in the EU. The cooperation between SAE and Toga enables seamless


Management Buy Out completed at Toga Freight
September 25 th , 2023 – Dublin, Ireland Management of Toga Freight Services complete MBO It has been announced today that the board of Toga Freight Services Ltd, consisting of Robert Dickinson, Muriel Corish and Darragh Toner, have completed a management buyout and acquired the full shareholding of the company, facilitating the retirement from the business of co-founder and majority shareholder, Martin Gately. Toga Freight Services was founded in 1978 by Peter Toner and Mart
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