FedEx

During the shipping company's earnings call last week, FedEx CEO Mike Glenn brought up the Amazon rumors, calling them headline-grabbing but not realistic.

FedEx Corp. reported adjusted earnings of $2.51 per diluted share for the third quarter ended February 29, compared to adjusted earnings of $2.03 per diluted share a year ago. Without adjustments, FedEx reported earnings of $1.84 for the third quarter compared to $2.18 per diluted share last year.

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Numina Group, a leading supplier of automated warehouse control systems, has been awarded "The Integrator of the Year Award for 2015."

Amazon's ambition to build a global shipping and logistics business to compete directly with UPS and Fedex seems to be much bigger than what most people thought, according to leaked documents discovered by Bloomberg.

European Union regulators have unconditionally approved FedEx Corp.’s acquisition of Dutch parcel company TNT Express NV, ending a six-month antitrust investigation that had been one of the biggest hurdles for the nearly $5 billion deal.

Earlier today, FedEx and TNT NV announced that the proposed $4.8 billion acquisition of TNT by FedEx received the news they were hoping to hear from the European Commission (EC), with the companies saying they obtained the unconditional approval of the EC and the EC concluding this deal does not raise any competition concerns.

There are less than 24 hours until Christmas and the annual last minute shoppers are not the only people feeling the heat, FedEx, UPS and the USPS are all racing to have millions of packages delivered for products ordered in the still ongoing holiday season.

The 2015 holiday season could prove to be highly profitable for United Parcel Services and FedEx, but will the companies be able to capitalize on the opportunity?

FedEx Corp. has received regulatory antitrust approval in the U.S. for its merger with Dutch package delivery counterpart TNT Express, with the Federal Trade Commission naming the TNT-FedEx merger among the list of approved deals.

The planned acquisition of TNT NV by FedEx moved one step closer to fruition last week, when the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) signed off on the deal in the form of getting U.S. antitrust permission to merge, according to a Reuters report.

As retailers rethink inventory strategy, transportation companies see fortunes change; e-commerce to buoy UPS, FedEx, DHL, and USPS.

The companies said that the acceptance period was extended because not all offer conditions, specifically, the Offer Condition relating to Competition Clearances, were fulfilled upon expiry of the initial Acceptance Period on October 30.

U.S. retail sales this year is a $3.8 trillion business, and e-commerce is bringing a whole new series of opportunities to companies like FedEx, mainly in the area of returns, logistics, and disposition.

With the days falling off the calendar leading up to the holiday season, the ongoing influence and emergence of e-commerce on supply chain management shows no signs of stopping. That was a major takeaway of a keynote speech given by Henry Maier, president and CEO of FedEx Ground at the University of Rhode Island’s Supply Chain Management Forum earlier this week.