UPS Delivers The Goods
September 5, 2007
United Parcel Service – UPS for short – is the world’s largest logistics enterprise. With revenues of $47.5 billion, UPS has employed a canny mix of cuttingedge technology, quick silver management decision making and innovation led delivery systems to create a global powerhouse.
Deft fingers! Deft fingers wrapping thousands of bundles. Neatly tied! Neatly addressed! Stuffed with soft tissue paper! What a treat! Ah, packages!”
He was passionate about packages. And as the above quote (taken from a profile carried in a 1947 issue of the New Yorker) highlights, James E. Casey was not afraid to show it. It was a passion that would transform his company from a Seattle based neighborhood messenger service into the world’s largest package delivery company and a leading global provider of specialized transportation and logistics services.
The United Parcel Service (UPS) is a veritable business leviathan today, a full hundred years since its inception, with revenues in 2006 rising to $47.5 billion. Delivering as many as 15.6 million packages and documents each business day, UPS has a presence in 200 countries and territories and 427,700 employees worldwide. Though the company’s premier area of business is time definite delivery of packages and documents, it also offers supply chain solutions such as freight forwarding, customs brokerage, fulfillment, returns, financial transactions, repairs and less than truckload transportation services.
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