Brooke Sutherland, Columnist

Looking for FedEx Answers? 'Nice Try'

The package shipper's sketchiness on the merger integration is curious.

June 22, 2016 at 12:23 PM UTC

Corrected

June 22, 2016 at 4:04 PM UTC

Brooke Sutherland is Bloomberg News' Boston bureau chief and writes the Industrial Strength Newsletter. She was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals and industrial companies and an M&A reporter for Bloomberg News.

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A multi-billion-dollar merger integration wasn't built in 28 days.

FedEx finally closed its $4.8 billion purchase of TNT Express in May, and the takeover of the European package-delivery company was widely expected to be the focus of its earnings report on Tuesday. Executives were more than happy to chat about it -- just not in too much detail.