Tag: FedEx

A survey of logistics: Chain reactions

Posted by | Jun 17, 2006 | |

Delivery companies are consolidating

“WE ARE competing with giants,” says Fadi Ghandour. The Jordanian businessman has first-hand experience of consolidation in the logistics business. He is chief executive of ARAMEX International, which began life as the Middle East partner of a number of American delivery companies. Partnerships and alliances allow operators to link with others to provide services in places where they have no operations of their own. All went well until 2003, when DHL bought Airborne Express, ARAMEX’s chief partner in America. The deal gave DHL a way to compete in the backyard of UPS and FedEx. But for ARAMEX it meant its link to the crucial American market was cut.

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FedEx launches critical inventory logistics program for customers

Posted by | Jun 13, 2006 | |

FedEx Corp. today announced the launch of FedEx Critical Inventory Logistics, a supply chain service that will enable customers to more efficiently manage high value and time critical inventory by utilizing the power and reach of the FedEx portfolio of companies. The service will focus on customers in telecommunication, semiconductor, biomedical and other high technology industries. “Customers are increasingly looking to FedEx for our expertise in managing just-in-time, critical inventories,” said Tom Schmitt, president and chief executive officer of FedEx Global Supply Chain Services. “Our unique mix of networks allows FedEx to create customized solutions to address almost every supply chain need.”

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FedEx Express among top 40 'Black Enterprise' diversity companies

Posted by | Jun 12, 2006 | |

Black Enterprise magazine has selected FedEx Express as one of 40 US companies to be included in its second annual list of best companies for diversity. The magazine also recognized FedEx Express as being among the “very best at bringing talented people of color into the ranks of senior management,” along with Xerox Corp. and McDonald’s.

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FedEx establishing presence in Sichuan

Posted by | Jun 11, 2006 | |

The Ministry of Commerce has officially approved FedEx to set up a subsidiary in Sichuan province to engage in international express delivery. At the West China Investment Strategy Workshop with Multinationals in Jiuzhaigou in October 2005, FedEx China CEO Tian Changan expressed his confidence in the investment climate of Sichuan province and hope for stronger investment engagement with the province in a bid to extend the industrial chain and to develop modern logistics.

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French La Poste decision reversed

Posted by | Jun 8, 2006 | |

European Union regulators were wrong to allow the French state-run postal service to help a unit expand into express delivery in the 1980s and ’90s, an EU court ruled Wednesday in a case brought by FedEx and DHL International. The regulators’ conclusion in 1997 that France did not provide illegal subsidies by allowing La Poste to grant logistical support to its Chronopost subsidiary was unjustified, the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg ruled. Industry groups have complained that former monopolies like La Poste have used government aid, which is intended to support nationwide letter delivery, to buy competitors in the express business. The case at the Court of First Instance, the second-highest European court after the European Court of Justice, was brought by express mail carriers FedEx, DHL and Crie, as well as industry group Union Francaise de L’Express.

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