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When Does a Comment to Investors Become an Illegal "Signal" to Competitors?

10xLogistics

On July 18, 2015 I wrote a blog post entitled: DOJ Investigates Airlines - Are the Trucking Companies Next? Every conference I have been to and every investor deck I have seen usually has the freight transportation executive using these exact words. The example used in the lawsuit is, according to the article: ".airline

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Observations From IFA 2020: Franchising’s Future Starts With Us

WorkWave

While the theme of the convention this year was focused on the future of franchising, and this was definitely intertwined throughout the conference sessions, the takeaway for me was different. To me, the theme that really resonated was engagement and connection. In other words, how can we better engage and connect with our employees?

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2018 Supply Chain Top 25 Rankings released by Gartner

247 Customs Broker

s annual Supply Chain Executive Conference held last week in Phoenix, AZ provided the platform for the release of its Supply Chain Top 25, which identifies industry “best practices.”. Notes: Gartner Opinion and Peer Opinion: Based on each panel’s forced-rank ordering against the definition of “DDVN orchestrator.”

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International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) report ‘significant progress’ on 6-year extension

247 Customs Broker

This week’s negotiations in Newark, New Jersey, were the first for the ILA and USMX since early December, when negotiations broke off after a disagreement over the contract’s definition of automated terminals, which ILA President Harold Daggett opposes. The West Coast’s share of US containerized imports from Asia slipped to 65.3

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Africa-Asia economic relations: Let the private sector shine

247 Customs Broker

Bilateral forums, conferences, meetings and seminars happen more often than one can count, and usually result in numerous announcements – ranging from memoranda of understanding (MoU) to billions of financial commitments. of China’s overall FDI.

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Logistics IT: Is there an app for that?

Automotive Logistics

At the recent Automotive Logistics Global conference in Detroit , an executive from Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which only began production in 2011, noted that the plant’s manufacturing and logistics operations were characterised by over 300 separate systems and interfaces, which had begun to be seen as a barrier to rapid change.

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Smart Lagos: Status, prospects and opportunities

247 Customs Broker

Such is Andela’s stellar reputation for excellence that American TV network CNN in June 2015 called it “the startup that’s harder to get into than Harvard”. The smart city vision of the state government was discussed extensively at a conference it sponsored during its “Lagos at 50” celebrations in May 2017. Smart does not mean elite.