Category: UPS News

Parcel delivery giant is working on a steady delivery route to investor peace of mind.

If good things come in small packages, the folks at United Parcel Service will want to consider whether a bad thing will come its way in a very, very large package. The delivery date is uncertain, but the irony here is that it could arrive by way of its largest customer.

That would be Amazon.com, which accounted for more than 6 percent of UPS business in 2015, according to Jon Budish, investment strategist in residence at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Silberman College of Business.

A new book by Ron Wallace, the former president of United Parcel Service Inc.’s (NYSE: UPS) international package operations, offers career advice and stories about people he worked with along the way.

Wallace was a delivery driver for six years in rural Idaho and rose through the ranks to become president of the company.

Wallace’s new book – Leadership Lessons from a UPS Driver: Delivering a Culture of We, Not Me (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) – “pulls back the curtain on never-before-revealed principles into UPS successes spanning a century,” according to press material about the book.

Richard Peretz, CFO of UPS, discusses the international considerations of doing business in the light of the current political rhetoric on trade,

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