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United Parcel Service
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Known in the industry as "Big Brown," United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is the world's largest package delivery company. The Atlanta-based business delivered approximately 3.4 billion items throughout more than 200 countries and territories in 2003. In addition to its fleet of 88,000 vehicles, the company operates the ninth largest airline in North America by virtue of its nearly 600 company-owned and chartered aircraft. Although UPS's global reach has been steadily expanding, it is the firm's U.S. operations that are its most impressive asset. Its door-to-door delivery system reaches every residential and business address in the country, and UPS estimates that its system carries goods that are valued at more than 6 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. More than 83 percent of UPS's revenues is generated in the United States, where the firm has a market share of about 60 percent in ground shipping and about 35 percent in air shipping.
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United Parcel Service of America (UPS), the world's largest package-delivery company, is still trucking with its easily recognizable chocolate-colored delivery vehicles, serving more than 200 countries and territories and reaching every address in the continental US. It delivers 12 million packages per day through air and ground delivery, including early-morning, same-day, and next-day air, among others. Through UPS Logistics Group, the company provides logistics services for businesses such as truck leasing. The industry giant ... offers a passenger charter service and secure Internet document delivery. Employees and their families own the majority of the company. (from Hoover's)
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United Parcel Service started to use a new logo in April 2003. Before this they had another logo designed by Paul Rand in 1961. There are some major competitors of United Parcel Service and they are United States Postal Service (USPS), DHL and FedEx. Among all these rivalries the United States Postal Service (USPS) is the only one to compete with UPS because both of them have inexpensive ground-based delivery market. On the other hand, in 2000 FedEx extended their business into the ground market by purchasing RPS or Roadway Package System and this has rebranded the company as FedEx Ground. DHL has ... acquired Airborne Express in 2003.
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TOLEDO, Ohio, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- James P. Kelly, retired Chairman and CEO of United Parcel Service, has been elected to the Dana Corporation (NYSE: DCN) Board of Directors, Dana Chairman and CEO Joe Magliochetti announced today. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990903/DANA ) "Jim Kelly has been instrumental in the evolution of UPS, from his role in taking the company public to leading its transformation into the world's largest express carrier and package delivery company," Mr. Magliochetti said. "We are excited about the new dimension of talent and experience his election brings to the Dana Board." Following service in the U.S. Navy, Mr. Kelly began his career with UPS in 1964 as a delivery driver in his home state of New Jersey. In the ensuing years, he advanced through a variety of staff and operations positions with increasing responsibility. In 1988, Mr. Kelly was elected Senior Vice President and appointed the company's Labor Relations Manager.
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United Parcel Service (UPS), a logistics supplier, is recognized as Chrysler Group's Supplier of the Year. Since 1992, UPS has been committed to providing business opportunities to small, minority-owned and women-owned businesses. The Tier Two sourcing target for all DaimlerChrysler suppliers to minority-owned firms in 2003 was 6.5 percent. UPS successfully achieved an outstanding 12.99 percent. UPS is ... a DaimlerChrysler 2003 Global Supplier Award winner, a distinction attained by only eight of DaimlerChrysler suppliers worldwide.
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[B]acked by its patient and confident employee/stockholders and a hefty bank account, UPS was able to wait out publicly held Federal Express, which had limited its European service to intercontinental deliveries by mid-decade. In stark contrast, UPS had expanded its international network to include 200 countries and territories worldwide. Undaunted by its massive losses, UPS announced plans to invest more than $1 billion in its European operations from 1995 to 2000, and it infused another $130 million into its Asian operations. The company hoped to profit on its piece of the $25 billion European parcel post market by the end of the century.
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