1986 Moved head offices from Tillsonburg to Toronto. 1986 Amalgamated Border Brokers and International-Import Customs Brokers under the Livingston name. 1986 Sold R.G. Hobelman and separately sold the export packing division to a management group. 1986 Don Gordon replaced Martin Fabi as president and CEO. 1988 Gerry Livingston died. 1988 to 1993: Corporate restructuring 1988 Livingston executives decided to focus on the North American market. 1988 Separated Livingston’s Canadian health care operations from the public warehousing division. 1988 Opened its first U.S.-based health care distribution facility in Wilmington, Delaware. 1990 Sold its U.K. warehousing operations and international freight forwarding operations. 1990 Acquired Mendelssohn-Commercial Limited, a major Canadian customs broker, and its subsidiary Arthur L. Brunette. 1991 Acquired To-Market Services Limited, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based warehousing company. 1991 Richard Ivey replaced Dick Ivey (senior) as company chairman. 1993 to 2010: Growth in customs brokerage 1993 Expanded customs brokerage operations into the U.S. to become the first customs broker to operate coast to coast on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. 1994-1995 Don Gordon retired from Livingston; Jean-René Halde joined as president and CEO. 1995 Made considerable investments in technology, introducing value-added software solutions to support its core brokerage services. 1995 Transport Canada launched the Registrar of Imported Vehicles; Livingston was a subcontractor to the program. 1997 Livingston International was acquired by a private equity investment firm, CAI; parent company Livingston Group continued in warehousing and distribution until 2001, when it sold its remaining business to an industry participant. 1997 Peter Luit was appointed president and CEO. 1999 Acquired Canada’s oldest customs brokerage company, Blaiklock Inc., founded in 1876. 2000 Won the exclusive contract to administer the Registrar of Imported Vehicles on behalf of Transport Canada. 2000 Named one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies. 2001 Named one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies for the second year in a row. 2002 Went public through an initial public offering as an income trust with an initial market capitalization of C$151,026,000; Livingston International Income Fund began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol LIV.UN. 2002 Acquired Consultrans, an Ontario-based transportation brokerage and warehousing company, doubling its North American truck transportation management operations. 2003 Acquired Chicago-based customs broker and freight forwarder Osowski, launching Livingston into the U.S. air/sea customs and freight forwarding market. 2005 Acquired Great Lakes Customs Brokerage, a U.S. northern border customs broker, and its software application business, SouthRanch. 2005