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UPS Asia Business Monitor 2008:

Posted by | Jul 11, 2008 | |

Even though small and medium-sized business leaders in Asia Pacific view their Thai counterparts as less competitive than last year, Thai business leaders are confident about their own growth prospects. According to the UPS Asia Business Monitor 2008, optimism remains strong with 60 percent of Thai small-to-medium enterprises, or SMEs, expecting to do better than they did last year and 52 percent expecting an increase in their workforce.

The UPS Asia Business Monitor is an annual survey that has tracked the competitiveness of SMEs, across 12 countries in Asia Pacific since 2005. Forty-four percent of the 1,201 SMEs leaders in the survey rated Thai SMEs prospect for growth in 2008 as good, a drop from 50 percent in 2007.

According to the survey, the greatest growth opportunities are found in Manufacturing, Automotive and Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing. However, the most lacking areas are in government support, the ability to innovate and access to overseas markets.
Also lacking for the SMEs is the use of effective supply chain management in their businesses. Fifty percent of the Thai SMEs surveyed are either under-utilising, neglecting or not using supply chain management in their business.
The UPS ABM 2008 identified a critical shift in the top three business concerns of Thai SME leaders. In 2007, Thai SMEs were most concerned with the quality of products and services. This year, the issue of political and economic stability (57%) is keeping most Thai SMEs awake at night, followed by retention of quality employees (55%) and customer loyalty/retention (46%).
Regarding drivers for the recovery of Thai economy, Thai SMEs feel that education (59%) and government support (47%) will most help the economy recover and catch up with its neighbours.

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USPS wants quality over quantity

Posted by | Jul 11, 2008 | |

After years of managing volume, the U.S. Postal Service wants to instead manage mail quality, according to Hamilton Davison, Executive Director of the American Catalog Mailers Association.

Davison’s information stems from discussions with Postmaster General John E. Potter during ACMA’s National Catalog Advocacy & Strategy Forum last month. Potter suggested then that the USPS may soon become a much smaller organization that would not longer be handling more than 200 billion pieces a year, including 50 billion flats.

A big concern for catalogers remains the threats of do-not-mail legislation, as laws have been proposed in several states. Davison said Potter indicated that the responsibility will be in the hands of the mailer to clean up its lists. And that’s especially going to be a wake-up call for business-to-business mailers who have a harder time tracking career moves than consumer catalogers do residential change of addresses.

“I think do-not-mail has a spillover into the b-to-b community, though it’s really in the hearts and minds of the consumer,” Davison said. “Whether the consumer is in the home or the office, if it gets the message that catalogs are bad, that’s a real problem for us. We need to be proactive and do the right thing, and be on the right side of that issue.”

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TDG signs contract with DHL to equip Boeing 757 fleet with UFI

Posted by | Jul 10, 2008 | |

TDG Aerospace, manufacturer of safety solutions for the commercial aviation industry announced that DHL has selected its UFI STC ST01950LA as an approved method of compliance and terminating action to FAA airworthiness directive AD 2008-11-07. TDG’s patented UFI is a single compact unit that fulfills all required functionalities of the latest B757 AD, including automatic shut-off for the center tank fuel pumps and installation of secondary pump control relays.

The company’s patented UFI fault detection system protects aircraft electrical systems and components from faults in critical areas, such as fuel boost pump motors and related wiring. In fuel boost pump applications, TDG’s UFI device provides comprehensive electrical fault protection and fuel boost pump automatic shut-off for center tank fuel systems. Additionally, the UFI unit provides a redundant relay solution to prevent un-commanded operation of the pump in the event of a failed control relay. TDG’s UFI system is the only single installation available that provides comprehensive protection against potential ignition sources identified by Special Federal Aviation Regulation (SFAR) 88 system reviews.

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FedEx launches Express Your Vote initiative for the upcoming 2008 Presidential election (U.S)

Posted by | Jul 9, 2008 | |

FedEx Express announced its support of Express Your Vote, an initiative of the Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to ensuring an estimated six million overseas Americans have the ability to effectively participate in the federal electoral process.

With FedEx supporting this initiative, Americans abroad in 89 countries will be able to access express delivery of their absentee ballots between September 15 – October 29 of the 2008 election year.

The innovative Express Your Vote program will provide American voters abroad the convenience of online shipping, track and trace capabilities, and proactive proof of delivery through the Overseas Vote Foundation Web site, which has been developed with the latest advanced automation solutions from FedEx.

Statistics from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s 2006 Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act Report” indicated that the third most common reason for ballots being rejected and not counted was because the ballots were returned to local election offices after the deadline.

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Business Post Group plc – AGM / interim management statement

Posted by | Jul 9, 2008 | |

AGM of Business Post Group plc, Chairman Peter Kane will announce the following statement to shareholders covering the period 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2008.
“Group revenues for the period increased by some 16 pct on the equivalent period last year.

Parcel revenues showed satisfactory improvement on last year. In particular, we continue to see good growth in our B2B parcels business which represents in excess of 80 pct of parcels revenues.

Our Mail business, UK Mail, continues to achieve strong growth, driven by new business wins together with further mail volumes from existing customers.
Revenues in Specialist Services for the period were up significantly on last year. In particular our Courier business has benefited from the contract with Orange which commenced in the period.

We have made a good start to the financial year with continued revenue growth and with trading performance in line with management expectations.”

Business Post Group plc announces that Dennis Clark, Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Director, retires from the Board following today’s AGM.
Philip Stephens has now taken up the role of Senior Independent Director.
The Board is well advanced with the process of appointing a successor to Dennis and expects to make an announcement on this matter in due course.

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