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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

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Amazon on path to reach 100% renewable energy by 2025. While Amazon may be lagging on drone efforts, it is making headway in its pledge for renewable energy by 2025. Apple, others face shipment delays as China Covid curbs squeeze suppliers. How Walmart and Alphabet jumped ahead of Amazon in drone delivery.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

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Highly lethal bird flu found in Kentucky and Virginia flocks. Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030. Grubhub now offers convenience store delivery in partnership with 7-Eleven. Well, the avian flu looks like it is back.

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More Electric Vehicle Supply Network Moves

Supply Chain Matters

In prior Supply Chain Matters updates, we called reader attention to General Motors efforts to lock-in supply needs up to 2025 , battery designer and supplier Panasonic’s announcement for an augmented U.S. Founded in 2015, Ascend currently operates a facility in Georgia , and aims to build another recycling facility in Kentucky.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 31 – January 6)

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Any earn-out is expected to be paid in fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2026. percent from 2022 through 2025. The 11-month total adds to the $37 billion in new auto-factory spending committed in 2021, when a number of new projects were revealed in states such as Tennessee, Kentucky and Michigan. Online pet retailer Chewy Inc.

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Conversation with the CSCO of Schneider Electric- Global Leadership in Action

Supply Chain Matters

Among the announcements made at the conference was a $46 million added investment to modernize manufacturing facilities in both Lexington, Kentucky and Lincoln, Nebraska. Others will follow. Sustainability efforts are further at the heart of current supply chain strategy.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 5)

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The governors urging the change are from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas, South Carolina, Alabama, and Missouri. Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle was crowned the best performer on plastics use for its commitment to eliminate all single-use plastics by 2025.