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...Li & FungO: 6; L: 7; I: 7; Total: 20When the Hong Kong supply chain group sold its logistics arm, LF Logistics, to container shipping company Maersk in 2022, the in-house team took a central role by acting...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 29. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The company has said it expects “meaningful reduction in marketing, consulting and labour spend in 2023” — a reduction of $50mn compared to 2022....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 15 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...Meanwhile, Alibaba has the advantage of the years it spent building a reliable and trusted platform, and of managing complex supply chains and logistics....
...Bain consulting alum Jeff Zients is stepping down as chief Covid-19 adviser to US president Joe Biden. He will be replaced by public health expert Ashish Jha....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 27. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 13, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Smaller local players trying to get ahead in Thailand’s logistics market are running into a problem: Alibaba. And Amazon is having similar issues with Alibaba-owned Lazada in Singapore....
...The US Treasury department on Wednesday blacklisted two oil tanker subsidiaries of Cosco, a leading Chinese shipping and logistics company, although the parent company remains unaffected....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 13. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“JD has an international profile and is part of China’s image, and [Mr Liu’s arrest] has been embarrassing for China Inc.”...
...It is testing self-driving delivery vehicles, it bought meal-kit maker Home Chef, and it took a £183m stake in Ocado that will see the UK company provide logistics technology for online orders....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on June 20, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Mobile technologies underpin the franchise strategy at Diamond Logistics, a courier company in Surrey, England....
...Logistics won out. It was “just too cumbersome” for Axiom to keep its manufacturing base so far away, says Bob Penicka, president of Axiom Industries....
...Emile Naus, former head of logistics strategy at Marks and Spencer, the UK retailer, and now partner and technical director at LCP Consulting, a specialist supply chain strategy firm, speaks of a big opportunity...
...Work began in 2007 to reconfigure how the force managed its logistics, with the aim of replacing 200 dated networks with a single piece of Oracle software....
...A study by the Boston Consulting Group found that a hypothetical $100 investment in Africa’s 40 biggest listed companies by market capitalisation in 1999 would have been worth more than $900 by November...
...The shipping company UPS, for example, created “the new logistics ”, a website showing businesses how to use logistics to expand, covering considerations from customer service through to money-saving ideas...
...The number of internet users in India is expected to triple to 300m by 2015, with online transactions doubling to 50m, according to Boston Consulting Group....
...Amazon has since transformed into a logistics juggernaut, device maker and virtual store for every product imaginable. But $18bn of its $48bn revenues still come from media....
...Walker says that at Oxford Saïd, “it’s not a cultural problem but one of logistics”. At Chicago Booth, Morton says: “This is a careers service for life....
...Russia and Indonesia were examples that Dean cited where logistics are problematic....
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