Purolator Courier
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| Type | Private corporation |
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| Founded | Eastern Canada, 1960 |
| Headquarters | Mississauga, Ontario |
| Key people | Robert C. Johnson, CEO Bill Henderson, Senior Vice President Shawn Klerer , CFO |
| Industry | Courier |
| Products | Package delivery |
| Revenue | $1.4 billion CAD (2007) |
| Employees | 12,500 |
| Website | www.purolator.com |
Purolator Courier Ltd. is a Canadian courier that is 91 % owned by Canada Post[1], 7 % owned by Barry Lapointe Holdings Ltd. and 2 % by Others.
The company was originally organized as Trans Canada Couriers, Ltd. In 1967, it was acquired by the US manufacturer of oil and air filters Purolator—the name was originally an abbreviated form of "pure oil later." In 1987, the company returned to Canadian ownership. Although it retained the Purolator name, it has since had no connection with the oil filter business.
Purolator has partnered with DHL for deliveries worldwide. Recently, Purolator has dropped DHL for its United States deliveries and switched to UPS.
Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter operates Boeing 727 and Convair 580 cargo aircraft for Purolator.
Since 2003, Purolator has organized a popular annual food drive in association with the Canadian Football League. Every season, fans in each city are invited to bring non-perishable food items to a selected home game, and Purolator collects and donates the food to local food banks. Also, for every quarterback sack in the CFL, Purolator donates the quarterback's weight in food to the food bank in the city where the game was held.
As of April 28, 2008, Teamsters Canada, the official union of Purolator truck drivers, package handlers, couriers, and other workers, gave employees a 72 hour strike warning. A tentative agreement from one month prior was rejected by 51% of Purolator union members. Purolator and its union met with a federally appointed mediator and reached a 2nd tentative agreement on April 30th, around 24 hours before the strike deadline.[2]
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On September 24, 2007, Purolator introduced the Unicell's Quicksider, a prototype full-electric vehicle, lightweight urban delivery vehicle, developed by a consortium led by Toronto-based Unicell Limited [3] in partnership with ArvinMeritor, Battery Engineering and Test Services Inc.; Bodycote Material Testing; Electrovaya Inc.; PMG Technologies Inc.; Purolator Courier Ltd.; Southwestern Energy; and the Transportation Development Centre of Transport Canada.[4] [5]
[edit] Company Overview
Facilities: 123 operations locations 20 regional sales offices 147 Shipping Centres 550+ Authorized Shipping Agents 350+ drop boxes 2 Customer Contact Centres
Call volume: Customer Contact Centre professionals respond to more than 30,000 - 35,000 calls daily
Vehicles/aircraft: 3,152 courier vehicles 136 medium trucks 1,064 highway trailers 436 tractors 21 dedicated chartered aircraft 943 ground support equipment
Average number of pieces handled: Daily: 1.1 million pieces (delivery and pick up) Weekly: 5.5 million pieces (delivery and pick up) Monthly: 22 million pieces (delivery and pick up) Annually: 275 million pieces (delivery and pick up) 70 per cent of the pieces handled are manufactured goods and 30 per cent are documents
Air freight volume: Purolator moves 400,000 pounds of air freight each night, and 100 million pounds of air freight each year
International delivery: Purolator International provides import and export services to and from Canada servicing 210 countries
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