What many may not realize is that Emery Express was also a CF company. You will see that John C. Emery, Sr. founded Emery Air Freight in 1946, when his company became the first air carrier to apply for a Common Carrier license from the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). While Emery envisioned his company working in partnership with regular airlines, the airlines viewed freight forwarders as competitors and fought his license application until 1948, at which point the CAB granted Emery a license as a common air carrier. His plan worked. During that time, the company operated out of a New York office with a fleet of vehicles consisting of two Ford pickup trucks. Since those beginnings half a century ago, Emery has grown into a $ 2.9 billion global logistics, customs brokerage, air, shipping and shipping services company.

By 1956, Emery Air Freight had expanded abroad with its first international office in London and launched transatlantic service. The company moved to the forefront of technology in 1969 with a computerized track and trace system called EMCON, short for Emery Control. John Emery died that same year and his son, John Emery, Jr., assumed leadership of the company. The fuel crisis of the early 1970s led the company to lease its own aircraft and launch the “Emery Air Force” in 1976. Emery now offered closed-loop control of shipments from pickup to delivery, with Emery trucks and planes overseeing every step of the transportation process. In an attempt to expand into the small parcel and letter market, the company acquired Purolator Courier in 1987. The acquisition proved disastrous and Emery struggled until Consolidated Freightways, Inc. bought the company and merged it with CF Airfreight, CFI’s existing business. Inc. air cargo company. It was then that CF became Emery’s father. For the next two years, from 1989 to 1991, the new Emery, now known as Emery Forwarding, struggled financially just like the original company in its last years of existence. In response, CFI Inc. implemented management restructuring and marketing plans that helped propel Emery to its position as a market share leader in the business-to-business heavyweight air cargo industry. By early 1992, the new marketing and operations plan had begun to turn the business around. Customer confidence increased, as evidenced by the award of several major “primary carrier” contracts from companies like General Motors. In September of that year, Emery reported its first monthly profit since its acquisition by CFI Inc. Emery completed its financial recovery in 1993, making its first annual profit for Emery under any management since 1986. That same year, the company achieved a 10-year, $ 1 billion operating contract with the United States Postal Service (USPS) to operate their Express Mail air transportation system. They lost that contract through default and then Fed Ex regained that volume. However, once it was back on a good financial footing, Emery tried to position itself as a “one-stop-shop” transportation and logistics provider. So I was happy to have the support of CF.

The Company introduced its logistics subsidiary in 1992 and strengthened its customs brokerage and maritime services divisions, both of which Emery had owned since 1976. The company also committed more than $ 75 million for information technology upgrades to meeting customer needs beyond 2000. Emery’s parent company, Consolidated Freightways, Inc., was restructured in late 1996 with the spin-off of its national long-distance motor carrier unit. The parent company was renamed CNF Inc. and consisted of Emery, Con-Way Transportation Services, and Menlo Logistics. With Way it was the non-union part of CF.

In December 2001, Emery merged with the former Menlo Logistics and Vector SCM. As part of the Menlo Worldwide group of integrated service providers, Emery Forwarding now looks forward to working with our clients in new directions to engineer an even greater range of supply chain solutions than ever before. Menlo Worldwide is the recognized industry leader in global 3PL solutions and launched the first successful 4PL program. I know this sounds very official, however I realize this is the Bell Labs Think Tank project and is partially improvised from Net-Centric Warfare theory with a portion from Fred Smith, Hub System thoughts , implementing every type of transport known to deliver. packages and shipments. Emery Forwarding, part of the Menlo Worldwide group of integrated business solution providers, provides international ocean and air transportation services, North American overnight transportation, expedited, second-day, and deferred air transportation, customs brokerage, and project management. Menlo Worldwide, headquartered in Redwood City, California, is a $ 2.9 billion company with 12,000 employees and global supply chain services in more than 200 countries. Menlo Worldwide was formed in December 2001.

Few realize the connection between Emery and Consolidated Freight, but those who do realize that more was lost when CF went bankrupt, as there were synergies across the entire logistics chain spanning nearly 7 1/2 decades.