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C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. operates as a third party logistics company. It provides freight transportation services and logistics solutions to companies in various industries. The company through its contractual relationships with approximately 47,000 transportation companies, including motor carriers, railroads, air freight, and ocean carriers selects and hires the transportation to meet its customersÂ’ freight needs. C.H. Robinson provides a range of value-added logistics services, such as supply chain analysis, freight consolidation, core carrier program management, and information reporting. It also offers fresh produce sourcing and fee-based information services. The fresh produce sourcing service includes buying, selling, and marketing of fresh produce. The company purchases fresh produce through its network of independent produce suppliers and offers them to its customers, including regional and national grocery retailers and restaurants, produce wholesalers, and foodservice distributors. It offers fresh produce under The Fresh 1 and OurWorld Organics brand names, and has license agreements to distribute under various national brand names. It offers Fee-based information service through its subsidiary, T-Chek Systems, Inc., a business-to-business provider of spend management and payment processing services for motor carriers and truck stop chains. This service also includes funds transfer, vendor payments, fuel purchasing, online expense management, and permit procurement services. In addition, the company offers multimodal transportation and logistics services, such as truckload, less than truckload, intermodal, ocean, air, fee-based transportation management services, customs brokerage, warehousing, and other services. As of February 15, 2010, it operated through a network of 235 offices in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. C.H. Robinson was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
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