Peter Rowsthorn Snr is an Australian businessman. He is the former chairman of

Toll Holdings The Toll Group is an Australian-based subsidiary of Japan Post Holdings with operations in transportation, warehousing and logistics in road, rail, sea and air. It has two divisions; Global Forwarding, Global Logistics. History In 1888, Al ...

, Australia's largest transport company. He and Paul Little bought the company in 1986. He is now the owner of Wadham Park and Woodside, a horse training facility and a

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respectively. His elder son, Mark Rowsthorn, was chairman of

Toll NZ Toll Domestic Forwarding (TDF) is a division of the Toll Group specialising in freight forwarding by road, rail and sea within and between Australia and New Zealand. Toll is Australia’s largest mover of freight. Toll New Zealand is New ...

and an executive director of Toll Holdings.

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