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RELEASED: February 15, 2003 Nashville, TN - Once again Express Courier sponsored the American Heart Association’s Hearts in Bloom fundraiser conducted on Valentine’s Day. The Hearts in Bloom fundraiser provides fresh tulips delivered right to the participating office on Valentine’s Day. As one of the fundraising event’s sponsors, Express Courier provided the door-to-door delivery of the tulips and their vases to the participating offices. Express Courier has sponsored the event and provided delivery of the tulips for the past several years. The American Heart Association praised Express, saying the deliveries went great and were done in record time this year.
RELEASED:
February 11, 2003 Atlanta,
GA
– GEOCOMtms, architect of the A.MAZE software that simultaneously optimizes the
routing and scheduling of fleet operations, announced today that Express
Courier International (ECI) has chosen the A.MAZE solution. ECI will
deploy the A.MAZE Solution to optimize their routes, decrease operation cost
and support continued growth. From five
drivers in a single location in 1984, Express Courier has grown to be a major
local and regional courier with over 10,000 runs per day and locations
throughout Tennessee and the surrounding areas. "At Express
Courier, we are committed to using technology to both increase the efficiency
of the business and to create value for our customers, said Chuck Moyer,
Executive Vice President of Operations at ECI. Express Courier has parleyed
promptness, dependability, professionalism and a proven know-how into rapid
growth. The unique distributed-component architecture of the A.MAZE
software was very important to us, because it will provide unlimited
scalability as Express Courier continues to grow. We intend to take full
advantage of GEOCOMtms’ expertise and commitment to partner with us on this
project to ensure faster time to a successful outcome." "GEOCOMtms
recognizes Express Courier as a leader in their industry”, said Christopher J.
Russell, Vice President of Sales in North America for GEOCOMtms. It is
important for us to work with customers who understand and who are committed to
adopting best-of-class routing and scheduling technology through A.MAZE to
achieve sustained competitive advantage". About Express Courier
International
Since its
inception in 1984, Express Courier International has grown to be a major
regional courier delivery business with locations throughout Tennessee,
Mississippi and Alabama. They average more than 10,000 deliveries and pick ups
per day. Express Courier continues to invest in technology to improve
operational efficiencies and strives to strengthen customer relationships by
maintaining a personal touch all through their growth. The Corporate
Office is located in Brentwood Tennessee. About
GEOCOMtms GEOCOMtms
offers through its A.MAZE product suite, a Metasolution that optimizes dynamic
fleet routing, scheduling and improves logistics’ operations. A.MAZE technology
allows to model routing and scheduling constraints, to simulate events to
create sequences and schedules, and to optimize the fleet’s distribution
activities. In addition, it provides Real-Time Feedback and Response (RTFR)
through its wireless communication gateway, which allows companies to
dynamically and constantly re-schedule and re-optimize their routes according
to requests’ occurring throughout the day, resulting in an increase in their
fleets’ efficiencies.
GEOCOMtms
operates a network of offices throughout North America with facilities in
Atlanta, Boston, Montreal and Toronto. The corporate headquarters are
located in Quebec City.
RELEASED: January 22, 2003
RELEASED November 14, 2002
RELEASED: October 25, 2002 Nashville, TN - Express Courier has announced that Frank Limbaugh has accepted the position of Director of Marketing and Sales. Limbaugh will be responsible for sales personnel company-wide, announced Joe Bankemper, President of the full-service courier operation. Limbaugh comes to Express Courier from The Williams Companies, a pipeline, communications, and retail operation servicing the transportation industry where he spent 12 years and held the position of Vice President. Limbaugh has over 15 years of experience in the transportation industry directing marketing and sales functions.
RELEASED October 25, 2002 Nashville, TN - Express Courier has announced that Jeff Crawford has accepted the position as Manager of Training and Development. In this newly created position, Crawford will be implementing training programs company-wide, announced Joe Bankemper, President of the full-service courier operation. Crawford has eleven years of experience training in the transportation industry and comes to Express Courier from Proline Carriers, LLC where he was Operations Manager.
RELEASED October 25, 2002 Memphis, TN - The day started out as usual for Sherrie Jones, Branch Manager of Express Courier in Memphis. She approved a bid to be presented to a prospective customer and reviewed driver performance evaluations. But around 10:00 am, she received an urgent call from the company President, Joe Bankemper, to join a conference call. Scott Keen, Lee Temple, and others who assist Sherrie in running the branch, silently followed Sherrie as she headed to the conference room to take the call. Joe Bankemper, the company President, was joined by the entire executive team on his end of the line in Nashville. While she was on speakerphone, Scott Keen placed a letter on the table. The letter was not from a current or prospective customer. It was not really even a letter. It was a poem written for Sherrie by the owners expressing their appreciation and respect for her work as Branch Manager and in the other positions she had previously held for the past 15 years. It was Sherrie Jones’ 15 year anniversary with Express Courier. During her tenure at Express, Sherrie has worked in every position in the company until her promotion to the Memphis Branch Manager in 1995. After the two owners, no employee has been with the company as long or knows the company as well as Sherrie does. But not only does she know everything about Express Courier’s business, Sherrie helped grow the company from a small operation to becoming the only statewide full-service courier provider in Tennessee. When Sherrie was hired in 1987, there was only one branch, today’s Memphis branch, and only 12 employees and drivers. When Sherrie became Branch Manager in 1995, the company encompassed several hubs in Tennessee and the headquarters of the company had just moved to Nashville. Today’s Memphis branch, under Sherrie’s management, is one of the company’s largest and most successful hubs and offers a complete line of courier and warehousing services. Sherrie believes in an open-door management policy and has formed an effective team culture in the Memphis branch. “The people filling the widely varying positions of the company all have the same goals,” Sherrie says. “We are all here to take care of the customer from our respective positions to make Express Courier their first choice. We are all here to make our company a success. We are all here to make this company a great place for us to work. Everyone contributes different skills to make an incredible team.” To thank Sherrie for her successful management of the Memphis office, the owners and the executive team in Nashville presented Sherrie with diamond earrings. Scott Keen and Lee Temple placed the earrings in front of her as David Temple finished reading the poem to her over the phone. “Sherrie just laid her head down on the table, “Lee Temple later said. “She was really overcome by all of it.” “For the first time Sherrie is without words,” Scott” Scott Keen added.
RELEASED October 25, 2002 Knoxville, TN - Express Courier has announced that Virgil Avans has accepted the position of Branch Manager of the Knoxville branch office. Avans comes to Express Courier from First Tennessee Bank where he was Manager of Remote Production Services. Avans has 29 years of experience in bank operations management during which he oversaw contracted courier services. “The experience that Virgil Avans has in the courier industry from the customer’s side is invaluable to Express Courier as a company,” said Joe Bankemper, President. |
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