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‘Tis the season for holiday cheer and new beginnings. As the logistics and supply chain management industries say goodbye to 2021 and its disruptive challenges, these
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Col. Robert Sinkler is the new Water Resources Infrastructure director at The Heart of Illinois Regional Port District, which is branded as TransPORT. The retired commander
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Burkhard Eling will become CEO and Executive Board spokesman of logistics provider Dachser. The former leader of Dachser’s Corporate Strategy, Human Resources and Marketing units will
GT Staff 8:20 AM 2/12/2021
MODE Transportation, a leading multimodal third-party transportation and logistics provider based in Dallas, announced that Lance Malesh has been appointed president and CEO. He succeeds Jim Damman, who
GT Staff 6:47 PM 12/8/2020If you’ve hit a golf ball, had a heart tune-up or you just smell reasonably well, chances are you’ve had intimate contact with Glebar Co.’s handiwork.
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Global Trade magazine sat down with FedEx Supply Chain CEO Craig Simon at the 2015 LogiMed conference in San Diego, where Simon led a session titled
Haylle Sok 3:53 PM 8/10/2015PORT OF NEW ORLEANS’ GARY LAGRANGE LOOKS BACK AND FORWARD TO NORMALIZED TRADE RELATIONS WITH CUBA
When President Obama announced in December a beginning to the end of the trade
U.S. EXPORTER SHARES HOW THE WEST COAST PORT SLOWDOWN HAS IMPACTED HIS BUSINESS
For Dominic Picarelli, president of Diamond-U Products, the current ongoing, seemingly never-ending, quickly approaching
Greg Foran, who headed Walmart’s Asia division, replaces Bill Simon as head of Walmart’s U.S. operation. U.S. sales account for 60 percent of the retail giant’s revenues.
Walmart posted its weakest sales growth in five years during the first quarter. Experts say the listless numbers stem from the company’s continued reliance on big-box retailing
Experts say the girth of the world’s widest tree, the gigantic Banyan outside Calcutta, stems from its series of “aerial roots.”
The tree covers 156,000 square feet, making it larger than the average Indian Walmart (105,000 square feet) Foran oversaw.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim recently offered India up to $18 billion in financial support to revive that country’s sluggish economy.
Not sluggish is the country’s burgeoning beef industry. Famous for its veneration of the cow, India was the world’s largest beef exporter in 2012 and 2013.
Burger King doubled its income in the first quarter. New CEO Daniel Schwartz eliminated executive perks and learned the business from the ground up, i.e. cleaning toilets in franchise stores.
Youth serves at BK. Schwartz is 33. CFO Josh Kobza is only 28 and Sami Siddiqui, head of investor relations, is 29.
Schwartz will be the second youngest CEO on the Fortune 1000 list, behind Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The average age of an incoming CEO is 53.
Walmart’s Greg Foran is 53.
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FRANCE
Adherents of Le Hot Jazz play even le hotter with Dunlop’s Ultex Jazz III; durable, light and sharp.
ENGLAND
Dunlop’s iconic Gold Herco Flex 50, pretty much rock’s Rosetta Stone, has been favored by the likes of Jimmy Page and David Gilmour.
SEATTLE
Dunlop’s Tortex, which applies friction to strings, was the pick of choice for Grunge’s Mt. Rushmore: Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
NASHVILLE
The Nickel Silver thumpick is an Opryland mainstay, favored not only by guitar players but adherents of the banjo and pedal steel guitar.
