Eddie Stobart

Edward Stobart (21st November 1954 - 31st March 2011) was a British haulage company owner who first became involved with his father's company in the 1960s and subsequently expanded it into one of the UK's most well known multimodal logistics companies, Stobart Group. Stobart died on 31st March 2011 in a Coventry hospital of what was termed 'heart problems'. Stobart initially took over his father's company that had started in Cumbria as a local company that delivered fertilizer and grew it into a road transport and warehousing company. In 2004 he sold the company to his brother William and took over a Midland based company that built lorry trailers but that company failed in 2009.