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ScottsMiracle-Gro Improves Distribution System in Sustainability and Customer Service

Supply Chain Network

Since 2009, when ScottsMiracle-Gro began implementing its new distribution model, the Company has reduced the number of miles traveled to ship products to home center customers by approximately one-third. “We The warehouse is part of ScottsMiracle-Gro’s high-service distribution model that the Company began implementing across the U.S.

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LTL Carrier Profile: YRC Freight

The Logistics of Logistics

LTL Carrier Profile: YRC Freight. YRC Freight is the third largest less than truckload (LTL) carrier with approximately $3.2B YRC Freight has 9.2% YRC Freight is the largest subsidiary of YRC Worldwide Inc. Yellow Transportation and Roadway formally merged to create YRC Worldwide in 2009. in sales (estimated 2012).

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

percent, 214,500 jobs), Michigan (13.5 percent), Michigan’s 2nd (57,500 jobs, 18.6 The principal causes of manufacturing job losses were growing trade deficits, especially with China, Mexico, and other low-wage nations, and the weak recovery from the Great Recession since 2009. percent, 491,900 jobs), Wisconsin (16.3

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Using Big Data to Drive Manufacturing Sales: 3 Big Takeaways from the USMTO Reports

GlobalTranz

At the trough of the recessions in 2003 and 2009, only $100 million worth of equipment was being purchased. So, its effects were probably a little easier to handle than the deep, sharp recession of 2009. According to our USMTO data the 2003 recession really started in 2001 and didn’t really end until 2005 or even 2006.

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DOT Gives $500 Million in Grants to Much-Needed Infrastructure Projects

GTG Technology Group

The TIGER program was created in 2009 with the stimulus bill. Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin are included in the grant. Combined with the fact that Lowell, MA connects several major freight corridors, this means the inability to use these bridges creates significantly longer drive times.