UPS CampusShip allows companies to send packages and other parcels to employees in different stores or offices around the country, or in different areas of large corporate campuses. The system allows users to ship and track items via the Internet, the company said.
Read MoreBritain is about to administer a much needed post-Sept. 11 pickup tonic to the global express and parcel delivery market by opening its postal market to full competition for the first time. And that means plenty of new business opportunities for private firms, from U.S. giants like United Parcel Service and FedEx, to aggressive European postal groups like TPG of the Netherlands and Deutsche Post World Net of Germany.
Read MoreThere is no issue more critical to the future of commerce than managing global supply chains, which is why the future of UPS is bright, the company’s chairman and CEO said today. And that, Eskew added, is why UPS has been migrating “to a complete supply chain solutions company … a company that makes it as easy for a customer to ship a package or manage a supply chain from Iowa to India as it is from Iowa to Indiana.” The company said it expects improving revenue trends and earnings increases in the low-teens. Among the factors contributing to the estimate are an expected 50-to-60 percent improvement in the profitability of UPS’s international package delivery business and a gain in profitability of approximately $100 million in its non-package segment this year.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service has formed a new Atlanta-based unit to sell corporate clients on the Sandy Springs company’s expanding array of transportation, finance and logistics services. UPS Supply Chain Solutions will handle sales and marketing for UPS and more than 20 companies it has acquired since 1999, when UPS went public with a $5.5 billion stock offering.
Read MoreThe express delivery business is booming. The top two companies on the market, DHL Worldwide and TNT Russia, said Wednesday that their businesses grew 31 percent and 40 percent last year, respectively, although neither would divulge dollar figures.
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