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Echo Global Logistics, Inc. is a logistics company with a focus on managing the purchase of truckload freight capacity.

= Company History= Echo Global Logistics was established as a logistics division for InnerWorkings, a web-based printing company in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005, InnerWorkings founder Eric Lefkofsky and business partner Brad Keywell expanded the logistics division into a Delaware Limited Liability Company (LLC).

In 2006, Douglas R. Waggoner became CEO of Echo Global Logistics. Waggoner had previously founded freight management software provider SelecTrans LLC, which he sold to Echo Global Logistics in 2006.

When Echo completed its initial public offering on October 2, 2009, its common stock became listed on the NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker symbol "ECHO."

=Products= The company's product deliver real-time connectivity across the supply chain. Among the company's technologies is EchoShip, a self-service shipping platform. EchoDrive is a similar platform for dealing with dispatchers and drivers.

Other company applications include EchoTrak, a web portal that allows customers to view shipment details such as tracking and payment statuses; RateIQ 2.0, a rates tool that provides real-time pricing and transit time information from LTL carriers; EchoIQ, a platform used by Echo employees to create dashboards that measure and display a customer's supply chain metrics; and FastLane, a tool that lets carriers browse available loads, provide tracking updates, view performance reports, and upload load documents online.