Canada at the qualifying stage for the Olympics in Rome. 1964 General Motors became an export packing customer. 1964 U.K. export packing operation began in partnership with the Ivey family company, Allpak. 1967 Changed name to Livingston Industries Limited. 1967 Listed shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange 1968 Gerry Livingston sold control of Livingston to Allpak. 1969 Geno Francolini joined Livingston as president and CEO; Gerry Livingston became chairman of the board. 1969 to 1988: Diversification and expansion 1969 Acquired J. Waldie Company Limited of St. Thomas, Ontario and merged it with Lakeshore Transport to form Livingston Transportation Limited. 1970 Don Gordon became a director. 1971 Began public warehousing operations with the acquisition of warehousing facilities in London, Ontario. 1974 Acquired Mutual Warehousing Limited and Principals’ Warehouse Limited, both based in Ontario. 1975 Acquired Bennett & Shaw Storage and Distribution Limited of Calgary, Alberta as well as three Ontario-based trucking companies. 1976 Acquired Manitoba Cartage and Storage Limited as well as Inland Warehousing Limited of Calgary. 1978 Allpak acquired all outstanding shares of Livingston and took the company private again; Dick Ivey (senior) replaced Gerry Livingston as chairman of the board. 1978 Opened an export packing facility in Jacksonville, Florida as well as U.K.-based warehousing operations. 1978 Acquired its first customs brokerage and freight forwarding operations by purchasing International Customs Brokers of Toronto, Ontario and I.C.B. Freight Services (U.K.) Limited of the United Kingdom. 1979 Acquired Consolidated Warehousing Limited of Winnipeg, Manitoba and Edmonton, Alberta. 1979 Acquired Import Customs Brokers of Toronto and merged it with International Customs Brokers to form International-Import Customs Brokers. 1979 Richard Ivey became a company director; Harry Wade became company president under CEO Geno Francolini. 1980 Sold Livingston Transport Limited. 1980 Acquired Border Brokers Limited of Toronto. 1981 Changed name to Livingston International Inc. 1981 Acquired the Houston-based export packer of oil rigs, Houston Export Crating Company Inc. 1981 Acquired Hobelman Port Services Inc., a Baltimore-based import car servicing company, and part of R.G. Hobelman Company Inc., a U.S.-based customs broker and freight forwarder. 1983 Acquired Seaway/Midwest Limited, Canada’s largest public warehousing company, and Midwest Pharmaceuticals Limited from Molson. 1983 Geno Francolini resigned as company CEO. 1984 Closed Houston Export Crating. 1984 Sold Hobelman Port Services. 1985 Harry Wade retired, and Martin Fabi became president and CEO. 1986 Changed name to Livingston Group but customs brokerage division continued to operate under the Livingston International banner.