Growth in manufacturing and consumer spending has helped this unglamorous industry prosper. Those big rigs you see rumbling down the freeway are a sign of good times. Trucking is now the fastest-growing small-business industry in the U.S., thanks to a robust economy and expanded options for small-business loans and financing.…
Northrop Grumman created the position of head of corporate supply chain, naming PPL Corp. chief procurement officer Jaime Bohnke. Northrop Grumman Corp. named Jaime Bohnke, who has held senior procurement and supply chain positions with several large industrial businesses, to the new position of vice president for corporate supply chain.…
Amazon.com AMZN -0.37% appears to be taking small steps to develop its drone delivery program and doing so from backyards in its hometown of Seattle. On Thursday, one observer tweeted that the online retailing giant would be scoping out his property for its Amazon Prime Air program next week. “Amazon is coming…
FleetPride Inc., the nation’s largest independent distributor of heavy-duty aftermarket truck and trailer parts, said this week that Don Sturdivant has been selected by the board of directors to serve as the new CEO of FleetPride. The board conducted a thorough and extensive search process for a CEO and it…
The Kuehne + Nagel Group has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares of ReTrans Inc, a USA-based leading provider of multimodal transportation management solutions. The acquisition builds on Kuehne + Nagel’s overland strategy and will significantly strengthen the company’s position as an end-to-end logistics provider in North…
