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UPS, Inxeption Launch B2B E-Commerce Platform To Simplify User Transactions
Friday, March 22, 2019 - 10:44am | 373Read More...UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) and e-commerce technology start-up Inxeption said today they have launched a platform designed to allow business-to-business users to sell and distribute their goods across multiple online channels from one location. The platform, called "Inxeption Zippy," enables...
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Employees Sue UPS For Discrimination Citing Slurs, Nooses In Warehouse
Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 6:08pm | 908Read More...Image: Facebook/UPS United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) is being sued by 19 employees at an Ohio distribution center who allege the company fostered a "racially hostile work environment." The lawsuit, filed in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas on March 13, accuses UPS and five specific...
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UPS Pours $270,000 Into Women In Exports Initiative
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 12:26pm | 602Read More...Image: Facebook/UPS United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) has invested $270,000 into promoting women in the exporting industry as part of the more than $10 million pledged by the UPS Foundation last year to promote diversity and inclusion. According to Kathleen Marran, who was recently promoted...
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Teamster Locals' 'No' Votes Throw Wrench Into UPS' Contract Implementation
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 12:03pm | 738Read More...UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) employees at several Teamsters union locals have soundly rejected their respective riders and supplements to a five-year collective bargaining agreement which was ratified in October despite the majority of voters rejecting the contract. The actions by the locals means that...
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UPS Creates Executive Role To Promote Diversity, Women In Business
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 10:31am | 315Read More...United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) promoted diversity and women's advancement in the company on Monday through a series of initiatives and the creation of an executive role to cater to women and minorities in business. The company promoted Kathleen Marran, who has worked for the UPS...
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UPS's Carlton Rose: Electric Is The Future, But We Are Not There Yet
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 12:25pm | 874Read More...Electric is the future of commercial trucking, said Carlton Rose, but the industry is not there yet. Rose, president of global fleet maintenance and engineering for UPS (NYSE: UPS), told attendees at the Green Truck Summit in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Tuesday morning that UPS is committed to...
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Warning UPS About Excessive Capex And Buybacks, Moody's Downgrades Outlook To Negative
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 10:36am | 776Read More...On Monday, the credit ratings agency Moody's (NYSE: MCO) announced that it was changing UPS's (NYSE: UPS) ratings outlook from positive to negative, while reaffirming its A-1 senior unsecured debt rating, essentially the middle of the ‘investment grade' spectrum of bond...
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UPS Launches Fulfillment Program To Support Small-Business e-Marketplace Activity
Friday, March 1, 2019 - 1:08pm | 434Read More...Helping small business smooth out online flip-flops (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said today it has rolled out an e-fulfillment program to enable small to midsize merchants to sell goods on up to 21 e-marketplaces and web stores and have UPS fulfill, pack and ship the orders...
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Bulls & Bears Of The Week: Cisco, Coca-Cola, IBM, Tesla And More
Monday, February 18, 2019 - 10:30am | 800Read More...Benzinga featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included an old-school tech giant and an EV leader. Bearish calls included a couple of consumer goods producers. The big U.S. indexes ended this past week with a gain of 2 percent or so. It was not only a...
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UPS Delivers Solid Q4 Results, Calls It A Harbinger Of Increased Strength In 2019
Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 6:01pm | 830Read More...UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) today posted solid fourth quarter 2018 results, setting the table for what the shipping and logistics giant predicted will be one of its best years in recent memory. The Atlanta-based company posted fourth quarter revenue of more than $19.8 billion, a 4.6 percent increase...
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UPS Zeroes In On 'Super-Hubs,' High-Margin Shipments To Grow Business
Monday, January 21, 2019 - 11:45am | 645Read More...Shipping trends of 2019 are requiring established freight carriers to evolve their operational models. UPS (NYSE: UPS) is developing more super-hubs to facilitate growth through handling more high margin shipments. The new "super-hub" strategy developed by UPS is built on a network of...
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UPS Goes Against Tradition – Outsider Named To Run Its Fastest-Growing Unit
Friday, January 18, 2019 - 5:13pm | 966Read More...The keys to UPS Inc.'s (NYSE: UPS) fastest-growing and arguably its most pivotal 21st century business have been handed to an outsider. Earlier this week, Philippe Gilbert took the reins as the first president of the company's Supply Chain and Freight operation, one of the Atlanta-...
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UPS Cuts One Day Transit Off U.S. Export Deliveries By Merging Saturday Pick-Ups, Processing
Monday, January 14, 2019 - 2:49pm | 410Read More...UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said today that U.S. export shipments picked up at origin on Saturdays will be processed for delivery on that day instead of waiting until Monday, a move UPS said will cut one day off transit times to 57 international markets. The service, which began over the weekend,...
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Parcel Carriers Shined During Peak Delivery Period, Firm's Data Shows
Monday, January 7, 2019 - 12:52pm | 560Read More...The nation's three major parcel delivery carriers posted stellar peak-season performances, aided by perhaps the strongest collaborative effort from their customers since e-commerce became a staple of holiday shopping and shipping, according to data from ShipMatrix, a unit of consultancy SJ...
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Managing Exceptions During The Holidays And Reverse Logistics Season
Friday, January 4, 2019 - 11:20am | 1177Read More...The holiday shipping season in 2018 was propelled by the strongest retail sales numbers in six years. At the peak, UPS (NYSE: UPS), FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX), and the Postal Service were handling 72 million packages per day, compared to an average of 45 million packages per day...













