UPS To Acquire First International Bancorp
January 2001 UPS Acquired First International Bancorp for $78m discharged by the issue of 1.3m B shares in UPS.
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The home delivery challenge may be a costly one for e-tailers
The biggest home delivery challenge is perhaps that faced by the food retailers, but one, says the recent consultation paper @ Your Service, they will be able to handle, given their already sophisticated
Read MorePress Release: Parceline sets new standards in Home Delivery
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“There seems little point to on-line ordering if fulfilment takes several days and only benefits people who are always at home,” commented Kay Phillips, chief executive of leading parcel carriers, Parceline. “E-tailers and carriers need to work in unison to provide a more consumer-orientated service if we are to change perceptions about the reliability of on-line shopping.”
Kay’s observations are supported by a recent report compiled b ‘Which? On-Line’)’Nine out of 10 UK shoppers are dissatisfied with the quality of service. The shop front is there, but goods do not arrive on time, there is lack of communication when complaints are made and the wrong goods turn up.
Read MoreUrbanfetch becomes first dotcom casualty
URBANFETCH, THE AMERICAN-LAUNCHED
home shopping Internet company, has become the first casualty of the downturn in the dotcom market
Read MoreBusiness: TNT explodes into records management
TNT acquires Data Depot
Read MoreFedEx launches separate home delivery business
Responding to burgeoning de-mand for residential deliveries, a Federal Express operating company has launched a new service aimed directly at that market.
Read MoreWeighing up the issues
Judging by the latest directives coming out of the European Commission (EC) in Brussels, the Post Office can rest assured that it will still have a virtual monopoly on UK postal services – for the foreseeable future at least.
Read MorePostal service undergoes radical revamping
Postal service undergoes radical revamping
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