a) United Parcel Service

UPS company, due largely to its strong position in the dominant US market.
UPSoperates in over 200 countries and territories and is now competing closely with FedEx in
airdelivery. UPS delivers an average of 13 million packages per day and also operates
UPS.Logistics and UPS e Ventures to develop operations supporting ecommerce and Internet-
basedfirms. UPS is 90% controlled by its management, staff, ex-staff and the company’s
founding
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family. A 9% stake was sold to the public in 1999. In Asia, UPS has major hub locations in
Taipei (Taiwan), Hong Kong and Singapore.
b) FedEx
FedEx is one of the world’s leading express mail transportation companies and
operates648 planes, the second-biggest aircraft fleet in the world. FedEx is actually five units
includingFederal Express, the transport firm, FedEx Ground unit (formerly called RPS) which
specializesin shipping small packages within North America, FedEx Custom Critical (formerly
RobertsExpress) which specializes in urgent deliveries, FedEx Global Logistics which
specializes in justin- time delivery, warehouse management and distribution services and Viking
Freight, a less-than-truckload carrier in the US. FedEx delivers some 3.3 million packages daily.
The company's unmatched air route authorities and infrastructure make it the
world'slargest express transportation company providing fast, reliable and time-definite
transportation ofmore than 3 million items to over 210 countries each working day. FedEx
Express employsapproximately 138,000 employees and has more than 30,000 drop-off locations,
653 aircraft andmore than 44,500 vehicles in its integrated global network.
c) TNT Express House
TNT is the world's leading business to business express delivery company delivering
3.6million parcels, documents and pieces of freight a week to over 200 countries using its
networkof 878 depots, hubs and sortation centers.
The company operates more than 20,000 road vehicles and 43 aircraft and has the biggest door
todoor air and road express delivery infrastructure in Europe and leads the industry in
offeringcustomers a state of the art range of internet and software-based facilities. It employs
over40,000 staff worldwide and is the first ever organization to achieve global recognition as
anInvestor in People.
TNT is a division of TPG N.V., the global provider of express, mail and logistics
services.TPG N.V. is listed on the Amsterdam, New York, London and Frankfurt stock
exchanges and hasreported sales of Euro 11.7 billion in 2002, an increase of 5% over the
previous year