Category: UPS Press Release

Fifty CEOs, including David Abney, Chairman and CEO of UPS (NYSE:UPS), today convened at CECP’s 11th annual Board of Boards: Competing for the Long Run,February 29, 2016 in New York City. A Forbes-named top three “power player” event for CEOs, the Board of Boards is a closed-door, CEO-to-CEO forum on the case for thinking long-term about business and societal strategies.

At this year’s event, Abney was awarded the CECP’s first-ever Strong Start CEO Force for Good Award, which honors CEOs new to their positions who have in their short tenures made outsized impacts within their companies and community.

Largest Group of Safe Drivers in Company’s 108-year History

• UPS “Circle of Honor” Drivers Have Logged Enough Safe Miles to Drive to Mars and Back 19 Times
• Michigan’s Tom Camp is Company’s No. 1 Safe Driver, with 53 Years of Accident-Free Driving
• First-ever Latin American Female Driver Joins the “Circle”

UPS has upgraded Flex® Global View, the premier supply chain information tool for UPS freight forwarding customers. Flex Global View provides customers with visibility into four major areas of the supply chain: transportation, customs brokerage, supplier management, and warehousing/fulfillment.

New enhancements include more descriptive alerts providing customers with shipment milestones about air, ocean and surface freight forwarding shipments. Users will also benefit from new systems-driven logic to help ensure shipment updates are more helpful and timely. Customers will have visibility to customs entries in over 20 countries added throughout 2016.

The UPS® (NYSE:UPS) Board of Directors today announced it has unanimously elected David P. Abney, UPS Chief Executive Officer, as Chairman of the Board, effective immediately. Abney succeeds Scott Davis as Chairman, who will retire from his position on the UPS Board effective as of the 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareowners.

In other business, the UPS Board of Directors also today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.78 per share on all outstanding Class A and Class B shares.  The dividend is payable March 9, 2016, to shareowners of record on February 22, 2016.

UPS has a long history of its commitment to cash dividends. For more than four decades it has either increased or maintained its dividend. Since 2000, its dividend has more than quadrupled.

• 100 Million Flowers Flow Through UPS Global Logistics Network
• Last Minute Cupids Can Ship as Late as Friday February 12th

Cupid will receive a helping hand this Valentine’s Day, as UPS® (NYSE: UPS) fills its network this week with flowers, steaks, sweets and gifts.

UPS will move more than 100 million flowers or 9 million pounds, to love birds around the United States. That’s enough to fill approximately 70 Boeing 767 cargo aircraft. Many of the roses and tropical flowers originate from Latin American countries, primarily Colombia and Ecuador. More than 90% of the imported flowers will travel through Miami International Airport (MIA) where UPS is the largest air cargo carrier. From the flower farm to the importer, the journey takes less than two days.