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March 06, 2007

UPS and

"UPS and the Department of Commerce’s U.S. Commercial Service, a trade promotion unit of the International Trade Association that helps companies enter international markets, announced today that they are collaborating on a new initiative, which is designed to grow exports from United States-based small and medium-sized businesses." [source]

What export market and to where ?? the only place that most of the Export is to Canada and Mexico. How much in gross GDP goes out to other countries .  Ok, lets exclude Military stuff..

February 23, 2007

Health Hazard Alert - Dole Brand Cantaloupes May Contain Salmonella Bacteria !!

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the Dole brand cantaloupes described below because these cantaloupes may be contaminated with Salmonella.

 

The affected cantaloupes, produce of Costa Rica, were distributed under the Dole brand name. However, individual cantaloupes do not have any markings.

These are the list of stores that was part of a broadcast from CSCB ;


Name of store 

Address  

Sold from

 

Elias Fresh Express 

250 Tecumseh Road E,

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 17, 2007

 

A&P 

1030 Adelaine Street N, London

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Dutton Foodland 

210 Main Street, Dutton

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Loblaws 

3040 Wonderland Road S, London

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Lucan Foodland

184 Main Street, Lucan

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Moore's Foodland

6 Mary Street, Clinton

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Seaforth Foodland 

95 Main Street, Seaforth

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Stonetown Foodland

84 Wellingston Street, St. Mary's

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Valu Mart 

234 Oxford Street, London

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

This is how FEDEX started !!

I kinda found this real funny and had to reproduce :)-Picture1

Just in case you did not see this video on the news here it is again.

World's tiniest RFID tag unveiled

Smart Dust is coming our way...via Hitachi !!

The minute devices measure just 0.05mm by 0.05mm (0.002x0.002in) and to the naked eye look like spots of powder.

They are thin enough to be embedded in a sheet of paper, Hitachi spokesman Masayuki Takeuchi says.

Hitachi RFID tags
Here the tiny tags can be seen next to a human hair

UPS vs Airbus

"United Parcel Service Inc., the world's largest package-delivery company, said Friday it renegotiated a contract with Airbus to delay and possibly cancel an order for 10 freighter versions of the European plane maker's mammoth new jet, the last remaining order for the cargo carrier on the books at Airbus." [source ]

This could very well mean that UPS will now have issues with the thier long drawn far east Asia market space. After all, they hae all that warehouse space and stuff like that, but no vehicles to actually move the products out from China /Korea and into thier EU and NA customers. More of the stat's on my research and tracking efforts is here

February 20, 2007

DHL not serving Canada well ?

Andy brings some me an interesting tidbit of info !!

He cribs "If you type in "DHL toronto pickup" in Google.ca (Toronto IP), you would be able to see even Google can't find anything from DHL canada. Nothing from DHL is in sight, not even any Adwords ads."

Thats pretty pathetic epxerince for the conusmer /  customer

Supply Chain Companies are not wising up to the wisdom of crowds and Customer Experience Strategies.

oh .. during recently conversation of a leading company-- I dropped the question.. "whats your customer experience strategy".. and the answer was "oh we have a call center" -dah  !!

January 10, 2007

No more Cookie's for UPS

"I asked people what I should do about this mess and they all urged me to let it go. I could have written a letter to UPS's corporate offices to express my inordinate displeasure over the entire fiasco, but instead, I chose to air my grievances here. That way, anytime anybody googles UPS, this post about how UPS Sucks will come up"
Nice detailed rant happening here - at times I think that these F50 Companies are not interested in customer satisfication or even listen to what their customers are saying about them.
Its a fact, the market is always laughing, at them (the company) !!

November 06, 2006

Round Up on the vertical !!

Aplogies to my readers for not posting more freqently. So this post is just a quick brief with a lot of pointers.

FEDEX

UPS

DHL

Supply Chain

October 19, 2006

Brown is Good !!

United Parcel Service Inc. released Q3 2006 earnings today. Despite high fuel prices during much of Q3, UPS posted strong number in domestic and international package shipments.

Overall, UPS revenue was up over $1 billion from Q3 205, totaling $11.66 billion. Operating profit was $1.58 billion for the quarter. Average daily package volume was up from 14.3 million in Q3 2005 to 15.1 million in Q3 2006. Diluted EPS stand at $0.96, up 12%. UPS generated $4 billion in cash from operations; repurchased 26.5 million share; paid $1.6 billion in dividends; invested $2.3 billion in capital expenditures; and contributed $1.5 billion to UPS-sponsored pension plans

October 16, 2006

Fedex and UPS forward looking predications

Analyst William J. Greene of Morgan Stanley started coverage of Memphis, Tenn.-based FedEx with an "Overweight" rating and target price of $135. [..]   Greene assigned earnings estimates for the fiscal year ending in May 2007 of $6.80 per share. He expects $7.75 per share in 2008 and $9.24 per share in 2009

Greene started Atlanta-based UPS with an "Equal-weight" rating and did not set a price target.

Yes, why are the predicates on rating not been assign or disclosed for UPS ? Maybe it has to do with their Q3 Earnings conference call coming up on 19th of Oct.

Note to Self :  must track what Greens predicates and roll up this analysts views in 2007 !!