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Multiple electronic devices taken from package UPS truck
Investigators are asking for the public’s help in finding suspects in an strong-arm robbery of a UPS truck outside a wireless store in the city’s Lakeshore District, authorities said.
At 12:18 p.m., police responded to calls about a robbery in the 3100 block of Lakeshore Avenue.
Officers later learned that a UPS driver was making a delivery to the Sprint Store, 3199 Lakeshore Ave., when three suspects came up and starting taking packages.
United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) has invested $270,000 into promoting women in the exporting industry as part of the more than $10 million pledged by the UPS Foundation last year to promote diversity and inclusion.
According to Kathleen Marran, who was recently promoted by the company to Vice President of Marketing, diversity segments, the money was presented to the International Trade Centre’s SheTrades program, which will work in tandem with UPS’ Women in Exports Initiative to provide opportunity to women in the industry.
Nineteen UPS workers are suing the parcel distributor, saying they suffered repeated racial discrimination and the company did nothing to stop it.
A Hutto man is accused of stealing more than $37,000 in diamond jewelry when he worked for United Parcel Service in Round Rock last year, an arrest affidavit said.
Marcus Mitchell, 37, was charged with theft, a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
UPS (NYSE:UPS) has been selected for the Top Corporation Hall of Fame for Women’s Business Enterprises by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). While UPS has been recognized as a WBENC Top Corporation in prior years, this marks the inaugural year for the Top Corporation Hall of Fame. UPS is one of only nine companies achieving this new, pinnacle designation.
“We are honored to partner with WBENC and to be one of the first companies to receive this award for our efforts to drive the sustainable inclusion of women-owned businesses and empower local communities through economic growth and job creation,” said Eduardo Martinez, UPS chief diversity and inclusion officer and president of The UPS Foundation. “This award is a wonderful acknowledgement of our efforts, but even more importantly, it is a powerful example of public-private partnerships at work and engagement on a person-to-person level to create a business environment where inclusion is recognized and celebrated.”