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The UPS Store Aligns Itself with Service Providers To Help Small Business Owners Make Informed Decisions

It’s National Consumer Protection Week March 2-8, a nationwide campaign dedicated to encouraging people to make better-informed decisions about finances, health, privacy and technology. To help make it easier for small businesses to make smart decisions, The UPS Store® announced the addition of several companies to their small business solutions site. The site presents exclusive offers for a variety of services and products small business owners may look to outsource.

Results from an online survey of small business owners* indicated nearly all respondents (93%) would consider using a The UPS Store small business site resource.

Proposals Such as this Comprehensive Tax Reform Discussion Draft are the Right Path to Lead to Economic Growth and American Competitiveness

UPS (NYSE:UPS), a global logistics provider and leading advocate for comprehensive tax reform, applauds the release of a tax reform discussion draft by the House Ways and Means Committee. Today’s proposal is the result of hard work by Members of the Ways and Means Committee and the leadership of Chairman Dave Camp (R – MI).

Long-Time UPS Executive John Menna to Lead Priority Segment, Industry Veteran Bill Hook to Retire

UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced John Menna has been named Vice President of Global Strategy for Healthcare Logistics. Bill Hook, a 20-year healthcare logistics industry expert, will be retiring after joining UPS in 2000 with the acquisition of Livingston Healthcare Services, Inc. Over the past decade plus, Hook has catapulted UPS into a leadership position for global healthcare logistics and helped set the company’s global long-term growth strategy in healthcare logistics across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

John Menna, a 28-year UPS veteran, is currently vice president of planning and revenue management. He launched the first Pain in the (Supply) Chain survey – an annual report which measures healthcare executive’s logistics’ pain points as director of the initial global healthcare strategy team. Menna also served as director of customer technology, vice president of marketing in Latin America and the Caribbean for UPS.

More than 49,000 hours of time donated to Canadian charities

In keeping with its ongoing commitment to supporting the communities where it operates, UPS once again went beyond solely offering financial support in 2013. Encouraging staff to donate their time and skills to give back to their communities is at the foundation of UPS’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy and an area it continues to go above and beyond. UPS employees dedicated 49,465 hours to more than 500 charitable organizations across Canada in 2013. This was in addition to $470,000 given through The UPS Foundation’s Community Grant Program.