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United Parcel Service Inc

  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Donald Trump
    The corporate winners and losers under Donald Trump

    How global companies have fared since the US president’s inauguration

    A silhouette of the back of Donald Trump with raised fists, surrounded by a tank, Netflix TV, medication injector, a Cybertruck, iPhone, handbag and sunglasses
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    UPS to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments

    Delivery group declines to update its outlook for the year owing to macroeconomic ‘uncertainty’

    A UPS truck on Park Avenue in New York
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    Lex
    Amazon’s logistics success is a mixed package for UPS Premium content

    Its ability to make money has been constrained by the fact that Amazon is both its largest customer and competitor

    A UPS worker delivers packages on his daily rounds in New York
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    LexPrivate equity
    UPS and Northvolt show the public and private market disconnect Premium content

    Accounting in private capital has increasingly come under fire

    A UPS worker is pushing a hand truck loaded with packages along a sidewalk in San Francisco
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    UPS sees consumers trading down as new ecommerce sites hit profits

    Delivery group’s profits fell by a third as customers chose cheaper shipping options

    A UPS worker delivers packages in the Queens borough of New York
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Lex
    UPS’s results don’t offer canary in the coal mine hint for US economy Premium content

    It would be better to look at ecommerce giant Amazon and the scale of its third-party shipping service

    A UPS worker in Arlington, Virginia
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    UPS to cut 12,000 jobs as outlook falls short on weak parcel demand

    Delivery group returns to policy of employees being back in the office five days a week

    A UPS delivery driver
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    Lex
    UPS/FedEx: picking a delivery hero is a wager on wages Premium content

    An industry-wide fall in package volumes after two years of strong demand means the outlook is nothing to write home about

    A worker at a FedEx facility in New York, US
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    Unions
    Teamsters boss vows tougher line in US labour talks

    Sean O’Brien says he is taking a ‘militant approach’ as the possibility of a strike at delivery group UPS looms

    Sean O’Brien, Teamsters president
  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    US employment
    US employers slow down hiring before holiday shopping rush

    Bargaining power shifts away from applicants as retailers forecast weaker sales growth

    A Now Hiring sign hangs at the entrance to a supermarket
  • Monday, 17 January, 2022
    Airlines
    US airlines warn of ‘chaos’ as telecoms groups roll out 5G

    Aviation lobby says services will cause ‘incalculable’ disruption to passengers and cargo

    A Southwest Airlines plane approaches to land at San Diego International Airport
  • Thursday, 23 December, 2021
    News in-depthUS retail
    Christmas comes on time as US parcel deliveries beat Covid snarls

    Consumers and companies learn lessons from disappointments of past festive season

    A UPS hub in Kentucky
  • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
    LexTransport
    UPS/FedEx: not all delivery companies benefit from ecommerce boom Premium content

    One US parcel business has done a better job of generating returns for shareholders but competition can only increase

    Trucks with UPS and FedEx logos
  • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
    Supply chains
    Big US businesses pledge to extend working hours to ease supply chain backlogs

    Biden administration secures commitment from Walmart, UPS and FedEx to work round the clock

    The Port of Long Beach in California
  • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
    News in-depthRobotics
    Robots replace humans as labour shortages bite

    Automation gathers pace as logistics groups struggle to find workers to deal with surge in next-day deliveries

    An Amazon robot at work in the warehouse
  • Monday, 13 September, 2021
    Supply chains
    Supply chain crisis will leave permanent scar, UPS warns

    Delivery group’s international head says manufacturing and assembly will become more regional

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    Transport
    Parcel groups seek to deliver greener ‘last mile’ processes

    Solutions to logistical problems have a nod to the past with an eye towards the future

  • Tuesday, 18 August, 2020
    LexTransport
    UPS/FedEx: uniformed, not uninformed Premium content

    Covid-19 has changed the economics of package deliveries and allowed couriers to raise prices

    Shares in the two US-based logistics groups have almost doubled from March lows
  • Thursday, 30 July, 2020
    Online shopping boom drives UPS quarterly sales higher

    Shares jump 15% after hitting intra-day record on surge in revenue

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    LexUS companies
    UPS: delivery drop-off Premium content

    Upping prices carries risks for shipping company as deluge of residential packages hits income

  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
    Corporate earnings and results
    3M promises monthly updates in lieu of earnings forecasts

    Industrial bellwethers wrestle with how to keep investors informed during virus uncertainty

  • Thursday, 2 April, 2020
    Coronavirus
    Europe split over handling of postal services while in lockdown

    France and Spain cut services while UK, Germany and Italy run operations as normal

  • Thursday, 12 March, 2020
    UPS names ex-Home Depot executive to succeed Abney at the helm

    Parcel delivery company splits role of chairman and chief executive officer

    FILE - In this June 20, 2014, file photo, a United Parcel Service driver starts his truck after making a delivery in Cumming, Ga. UPS reports financial results on Friday, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
    Electric vehicles
    UPS orders 20,000 vehicles from electric-van maker Arrival

    Boost for UK start-up one week after receiving €100m injection from Hyundai and Kia

    Hyundai-Kia has invested €100m into UK-based electric vehicle startup Arrival
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2019
    InterviewHow to Lead
    David Abney: Making the big decisions to transform a company

    The UPS boss seeks out the people who will give him the bad news

    UPS CEO David Abney photographed for the Financial Times at the Financial Times offices in New York
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