In Europe, XPO has leading LTL positions in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Portugal. The company will have combined scale of approximately 84,000 employees at 1,469 locations in 32 countries. XPO will fully integrate all Con-way's operations under the single global brand of XPO Logistics and will expand the sharing of best practices throughout its organization. XPO intends to increase annual operating profit from the acquired operations by $170 million to $210 million through cost savings and operational improvements executed over the next two years. Within 12 months of closing the acquisition, the company expects to realize cost synergies through the following actions: In the second year, the company expects additional profit improvements by: