Irregular dimension and freight specialist Nightfreight has launched QuorumValue, a new service which operates on the basis of the bigger the volumes inputted, the better the value for the customer.
Read MoreFedEx Express will expand operations in India, increasing its number of flights and destinations, a senior company official said.
“We will add five flights to and from (New) Delhi taking the total to 16,” Robert W. Elliot, the company’s president for Europe, Middle East & Africa, was quoted as saying by Dow Jones Newswires. “With these incremental flights we will be able to carry (an) additional 900 tons of cargo to and from India.”
FedEx will also add 184 full time employees, taking the total head count in India to 425, he said.
The company will increase its retail presence from 11 cities to 54 cities, Elliot said.
“Enhanced transit times, additional capacity and the ability to clear customs on location will facilitate faster and easier trade with powerful trading blocs like Europe, and help Indian businesses take advantage of the new trade opportunities in Eastern Europe,” Elliot said.
Read More‘WHAT can brown do for you?’ is not a marketing slogan that would work well in Europe. The Dutch journalist sitting next to me bursts into laughter when the idea is suggested during an interview with Kurt Kuehn, one of UPS’s senior vice presidents at the delivery giant’s boardroom set in leafy suburban Atlanta.
“Imagine how it would sound in German,” he says, hinting that a US company proudly advertising how its staff wear brown shirts would not go down well in a country where the colour brown has become almost taboo.
Fortunately, UPS is not that naive. Kuehn says it has never tried to export the slogan, which works well in the US where the company is known as “Big Brown” and the public has grown fond of its brown vans, which deliver packages to front doors across the country.
Corporate messaging does not, however, appear to be one of UPS’s many strengths. Its senior executives find it hard to hide their envy and disdain for rivals that use marketing to raise their profile.
Read MoreJapan Post will make its way into international distribution services by joining hands with All Nippon Airways Co, sources said Thursday.
The two will announce their alliance at 3 p.m., the sources said.
While last week’s enactment of postal system privatization laws has allowed the postal entity to launch international delivery services, it has no international distribution networks or know-how.
Japan Post has chosen to tie up with ANA, which has such a network and international business expertise, the sources said.
Japan Post, at present a public corporation, and ANA, Japan’s second-largest airline, expect to set up a joint venture for international delivery services in Asia including China, they said.
Read MoreGo behind the scenes at some of Manhattan’s top restaurants and the revolutionary impact of FedEx can be found staring straight back at you – in the clear, glistening eyes of truly fresh fish.
Thanks to the company’s global delivery network, gourmet chefs are increasingly bypassing the traditional fish market and sourcing their best fish directly from individual fishermen thousands of miles away.
Turning business models upside down in this way is something the express parcel carrier does quietly all the time. When Apple sold one million new iPod nano music players in 17 days last month, the customised models bought online barely saw the inside of a warehouse but were fed directly from factories in China into the FedEx delivery system.
The efficiencies made possible by such low-inventory supply chains even play a key role in the flexibility and resilience of the US economy – most recently lauded by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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