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• United Parcel Service, Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-22

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Jon Langenfeld - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. Jon Langenfeld - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. Can you first just maybe bucket the cost savings that you have been talking about and talk about which of...

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• United Parcel Service, Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-07-23

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Gary Chase – Barclays Capital. Gary Chase – Barclays Capital On the outlook as you talked about business conditions remaining the same can you talk about what you are seeing and what you...

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• A Building Products Distributor Finds Truckloads Of Benefit In An Innovative Freight Distribution Partnership

  BNET - 2009-01-01

  Wolseley North America is a supplier of construction products and services. The company comprises Ferguson Enterprises, Inc., the nation's largest wholesale distributor of plumbing supplies, Stock Building Supply and Wolseley Canada. The company's management proposed making better use of UPS Freight vehicles that, after delivering their loads, returned to base...

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• For Norton Healthcare, The Prescription For Freight Cost Savings Is UPS

  BNET - 2009-01-01

  LTL Freight, a new shipping system and other UPS technologies lead to greater efficiencies. Norton Healthcare needed to reduce its swelling inbound and outbound shipping costs. It switched to UPS shipping services, including UPS CampusShip, a web-based shipping system, and implemented UPS tools such as an internal tracking system called...

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• Providing Critical Care For Medical Shipments

  BNET - 2009-01-01

  Manufacturer of health-care products expands customer service with advanced freight-tracking technology. STERIS Corp. manufactures products for the health care industry ranging from disinfectants to scrub stations to equipment for operating rooms. As its domestic freight shipments approached 2,000 a week, the company sought to consolidate its freight operations with one...

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• DHL: The Demise of Domestic Delivery

  BNET - 2008-11-18

  Only a few days after the announcement that DHL U.S. Express  will bow out of U.S. domestic shipping, analysts are dissecting its demise. In the last five years, since the company bought Airborne Express, DHL lost nearly $10 billion. Even closing down its U.S. domestic shipping branch will still mean a...

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• UPS Q3 2008 (Qtr End 09/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-23

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Garrett Chase – Barclay’s Capital Garrett Chase – Barclay’s Capital If you take literally what you said about the trends progression through the quarter in terms of what happened in September on the...

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• Medicare Ups the Ante on Medical Mistakes -- But Risks Going Too Far

  BNET - 2008-04-17

  Two weeks after health plans like Wellpoint announced they would follow Medicare's lead in refusing to pay for eight preventable medical problems in hospitals, Medicare has upped the ante by proposing nine more conditions for which it won't fully reimburse hospitals, including surgical infections, wild swings...

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• EU/US : WASHINGTON UPS PRESSURE ON CHLORINATED CHICKEN.

  - 2008-04-03

  In a letter addressed to European Commissioner Gunter Verheugen, dated 24 March, United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab showed herself to be very irritated by the European Commission's procrastinations on the chlorine-rinsed chicken issue. She says she is "extremely concerned" by the contradictory messages sent out...

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• Largest employers: ranked by total number of local employees as of Jan. 1, 2007

  - 2007-12-31

  LARGEST EMPLOYERS Ranked by total number of local employees as of Jan. 1, 2007 ...

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