| Description: |
Canada's largest courier company
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| Corporate tagline: |
Where business is going
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| Corporate
head office: |
5995 Avebury Rd.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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| Ownership: |
Canada Post Corporation (94%), Barry Lapointe Holdings Ltd. (4.9%) Others (1.1%)
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| President and C.E.O.: |
Robert C. Johnson
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| 2006 revenue: |
$1.3 billion
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| Employees: |
More than 12,500, of which more than 3,500 are couriers.
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| Facilities: |
123 operations locations
20 regional sales offices
147 Shipping Centres
550+ Authorized Shipping
Agents
350+ drop boxes
2 Customer Contact Centres
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| Call
volume: |
Customer Contact Centre professionals respond to more than 35,000 - 40,000 calls daily
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| Vehicles/aircraft: |
3,143 courier vehicles
117 medium trucks
999 highway trailers
411 tractors
15 dedicated chartered aircraft
686 aircraft support equipment
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| 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
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| Air
freight volume: |
Purolator moves 400,000 pounds of air freight each night, and 100 million pounds of air freight each year
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| International
delivery: |
Delivery to more than 35,000 destinations in the United States and more than 220 countries worldwide
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Updated December 13, 2006
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