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LTL Carrier Profile: Con-Way Freight

The Logistics of Logistics

In 2007, Con-Way bought CFI and merged it into Con-Way’s existing truckload addition. Con-Way Freight’s service area includes the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The company was founded by Leland James in Portland, Oregon. Contract Freighters, Inc. CFI) was founded in 1951.

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How Many Basic Tastes are There?

Enterra Insights

Umami was recognized as the scientific term to describe the taste of glutamates and nucleotides back in 1985 at the first Umami International Symposium in Hawaii; however, the term only achieved general recognition as a fifth taste in the last decade. Footnotes. [1] 1] Staff, “ a matter of taste ,” Merriam-Webster. [2]

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Is knowing tomorrow “good enough”?

Kinaxis

By scale, I don’t just mean the amount of data it can handle – Microsoft fixed that issue by going to 1M rows with Office 2007. What if Bob wins the lottery tomorrow and decides that his golf swing needs some work… in Hawaii? Sure, your Excel worksheets are nice, but do they scale to the evolving needs of your business?