FedEx and UPS (United Parcel Service): Maintaining success while competing aggressively

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According to Statista, the mail, express parcel and parcel (CEP) market includes companies that provide logistical and postal services, depending on the type of services offered. These services may include the delivery of parcels, messages or mail that will differ from a traditional service by features such as speed of shipment, tracking and receipt of the package, or with the individualization of the service. In the United States, couriers and local delivery services are the main services offered. The mail industry includes non-pelletized goods that weigh no more than 110 pounds. Two segments share this industry. First of all, the segment of large network couriers, designed for national and international deliveries. Next is the local service segment designed for parcel delivery in metropolitan areas.

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[...] Research and development is another area that companies can see as a weakness. Companies must be able to evolve and adapt to the demands of the market if they want to remain competitive or upgrade. It is in the form of innovation that the greatest opportunities are present in this sector. Indeed, the ability of a company to offer new innovative services and trends will allow it to be ahead of the competition that will not meet the need of the consumer again. [...]

[...] In the future I think UPS will be the most successful company. Indeed, UPS has been on the market for longer than FeDex, which gives it more experience and better visibility with consumers. I especially think that the real strength of UPS comes in its ability to expand with the acquisition of Cemelog Zrt, a pharmaceutical-logistic company in order to consolidate its health– care business in Europe. This allowed the company to consolidate its position internationally. FedEx is a more local player than UPS. [...]

[...] FedEx and UPS (United Parcel Service): Maintaining success while competing aggressively Strategic Management MGT6410 - American International College According to Statista, the mail, express parcel and parcel (CEP) market includes companies that provide logistical and postal services, depending on the type of services offered. These services may include the delivery of parcels, messages or mail that will differ from a traditional service by features such as speed of shipment, tracking and receipt of the package, or with the individualization of the service. [...]

[...] Economic growth is an important factor for the courier industry. The economic crisis of 2009 is the proof. Indeed, the strong global economic slowdown forced the biggest economies like the United States to go into recession (decrease in world trade and consumer spending). Consumers then have purchasing power has decreased, implying that consumes less causing a decrease in demand for shipping boxes, which ended with a decrease in industry revenue over the period in 2009. in 2015, the slowdown in growth in the US combined with the stock market falling Chinese market, reduced from to annual projections of global economic growth. [...]

[...] United Parcel Service (UPS) United Parcel Service also known as UPS is one of the top competing postal services they started off as a little delivery service and grew into what they are today. Although UPS delivers many of our packages as well as packages to others all over the world there are still things that they need to work on in order for them to reach the top. UPS plans to expand into other sectors in 2014 they expanded into other countries, but they also decided to offer new developments. [...]