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“UPS is making great progress on our transformation initiatives to enhance profitable growth and improve operating leverage. We are confident that our strategies will position the company to provide improved value for customers and shareowners.” So said David Abney (pictured above), UPS chairman and chief executive, at its recent interim results.
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Comment on this article
Andreas Kout
August 02, 2018 at 3:23 pmHello. Well who should they buy in, XPO forget o their own acquisition trail.
UPS lacks two things
contract logistics power
freight forwarding power
Which companies would make up a match complement this ,you can surely
find yourself a response on this. for sure is not too much companies would
say maximum 3 or
A.Kout
Ale Pasetti
August 03, 2018 at 7:27 amThank you, Andreas. Given the pressure on profitability, I doubt UP will look to gain scale inorganically in CL and FF. Have a great w’end!