United Parcel Service
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| Public company | |
| Traded as | : UPS DJTA component S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Courier |
| Founded | August 28, 1907 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Founder | James E. Casey |
| Headquarters | Sandy Springs, Georgia, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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David Abney (CEO) Scott Davis (Chairman) |
| Products |
Courier express services Freight forwarding services logistics services |
| Revenue |  US$ 58.363 billion (2015) |
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US$ 7.668 billion (2015)
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US$ 4.844 billion (2015)
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| Total assets |
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| Total equity |
US$ 2.47 billion (2015)
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Number of employees
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444,000 (2015) |
| Subsidiaries |
The UPS Store UPS Supply Chain Solutions UPS Capital UPS Airlines UPS Express Critical UPS Freight UPS Logistics UPS Mail Innovations UPS Professional Solutions UPS i-parcel |
| Website | UPS.com |
US$ 35.44 billion (2014) United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is the world's largest package delivery company and a provider of supply chain management solutions. The global logistics company is headquartered in the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, which is a part of the Greater Atlanta metropolitan area. UPS delivers more than 15 million packages per day to more than 7.9 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the world.
UPS is known for its trademark brown delivery trucks and uniforms, hence the company nickname "Brown". UPS also operates its own airline and air cargo delivery service (IATA: 5X, ICAO: UPS, Call sign: UPS) based in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
On August 28, 1907, James Casey founded the American Messenger Company with fellow teenager Claude Ryan in Seattle, Washington, capitalized with $100 in debt.
In 1913, the first delivery car appeared, a Model T Ford. Casey and Ryan merged with a competitor, Evert McCabe, and formed Merchants Parcel Delivery. Consolidated delivery was also introduced, combining packages addressed to a certain neighborhood onto one delivery vehicle.
In 1930, a consolidated service began in New York City, and soon after in other major cities in the East and the Midwest. In 1937, the logo was redesigned to reflect the company's new name United Parcel Service. All UPS vehicles are then painted Pullman brown. In 1937, the UPS logo was revised for the first time; it then included the tagline "The Delivery System for Stores of Quality".
From 1940 to 1959, the company acquired "common carrier" rights to deliver packages between all addresses, any customer, private and commercial.
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