Outsourced Logistics

Consortium Membership Reaches All-time High Mark of 300 Members

RALEIGH, NC, July 22, 2009 — The Tompkins-Supply Chain Consortium ranks among the top “benchmarkers” evaluated by AMR Research.

The recent report AMR Research Benchmarks the Benchmarkers (PDF) states, “Quantitative supply chain benchmark data is like gold to supply chain executives. It helps them focus and prioritize their efforts and supports project funding. While many benchmark providers claim to have the answer, we find that only a handful of companies have end-to-end supply chain data for manufacturers and retailers.”

AMR presents key comparisons across the top six providers that were evaluated for the report.

“It’s an honor to be classified as a top supply chain benchmarking and best practices provider,” says Bruce Tompkins, Executive Director of the Supply Chain Consortium. “With the growth that we’ve had over the past year, we knew we were meeting the benchmarking needs of a large group of organizations, and I’m excited to see that we are realizing our vision.”

Although the Supply Chain Consortium has been in existence since 2004, this year has been a record one for the organization. The group topped 300 member companies in June and is still growing.

“Through LinkedIn, we’ve developed a group that targets companies interested in benchmarking and best practices,” notes Tompkins. “We are also trying to reach out to more companies that will benefit from our Leadership Forum – a truly unique learning and networking experience. As the Consortium grows, we will continue to serve current members while looking ahead to meet the needs of future members.”

For companies that are interested in becoming members, there are several tiers of membership available, including a free contributing membership level. To learn more about joining and attending the forum, visit the Consortium website and choose the “new member” option.

With a comprehensive repository of 17,000-plus benchmarks, the Supply Chain Consortium is led by the needs of its membership and an Advisory Board composed of senior supply chain executives, which includes Campbell Soup Company, Hallmark Cards, Hewlett Packard, Ingram Micro, Kraft Foods, Miller-Coors, The Coca-Cola Company, Target, and True Value Hardware.

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About the Supply Chain Consortium

The Supply Chain Consortium is the premier source for supply chain benchmarking and best practices knowledge. With more than 300 participating retail, manufacturing and wholesale/distribution companies, the Consortium sponsors a comprehensive repository of 17,000-plus benchmarks complemented by search capabilities, online analysis tools, topic forums and peer networking for supply chain executives and practitioners. The Consortium is led by the needs of its membership and an Advisory Board that includes executives from Campbell Soup Company, Hallmark Cards, Hewlett Packard, Ingram Micro, Kraft Foods, Miller-Coors, The Coca-Cola Company, Target, and True Value Hardware. To learn more about how your company can become a member of the Supply Chain Consortium, contact John Foley, 919-855-5461 or visit www.supplychainconsortium.com/new.

Consortium event focuses on benchmarking as starting point for economic recovery

Raleigh, NC, July 13, 2009 — Charles Fishman, award-winning investigative journalist and author of The Wal-Mart Effect, will give the keynote speech on September 1 during the 2009 Supply Chain Leadership Forum at the InterContinental Chicago O’Hare in Chicago, IL. Fishman is a senior writer with Fast Company magazine and covers the hard-hitting business and supply chain issues that are critical to economic survival.

John Langley, Ph.D., Professor of Supply Chain Management and Director of Supply Chain Executive Programs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will deliver the forum’s closing address on September 2. He will debut results of the 2009 Third-Party Logistics Study: The State of Logistics Outsourcing, revealing the steps that 3PL users and providers are taking to combat today’s adverse business environment.

Bruce Tompkins, Director of the Supply Chain Consortium, says that they are thrilled to have Fishman and Langley contribute to the event. “The Leadership Forum brings together some of the best and brightest supply chain executives in the world, and speakers of this caliber can only enhance our interactions on benchmarking and best practices and help attendees further map out their short- and long-term business strategies,” Tompkins notes.

Sponsored by the Supply Chain Consortium, the 2009 Leadership Forum offers groundbreaking education and networking opportunities for supply chain professionals. The agenda includes discussion of issues in every component of the supply chain, specialty topics such as direct store delivery, service supply chains, and how to best prepare for economic recovery during a downturn. The event will kick off on August 31 with a networking reception focusing on how to help your company make the most of “The Great Comeback” of the global economy.

“While there are signs that the economy is on the mend, it’s been proven that a lot of companies do not have any type of solid recovery plan in place,” Tompkins says. “Core benchmarks are the barometer of supply chain success and the key to mapping out a winning recovery strategy.”

The 2009 forum is open to members of the Supply Chain Consortium. For companies that are interested in becoming members, there are several tiers of membership available, including a free contributing membership level. To learn more about joining and attending the forum, visit the Consortium website and choose the “new member” option.

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About the Supply Chain Consortium

The Supply Chain Consortium is the premier source for supply chain benchmarking and best practices knowledge. With more than 300 participating retail, manufacturing and wholesale/distribution companies, the Consortium sponsors a comprehensive repository of 17,000-plus benchmarks complemented by search capabilities, online analysis tools, topic forums and peer networking for supply chain executives and practitioners. The Consortium is led by the needs of its membership and an Advisory Board that includes executives from Campbell Soup Company, Hallmark Cards, Hewlett Packard, Ingram Micro, Kraft Foods, Miller-Coors, The Coca-Cola Company, Target, and True Value Hardware. To learn more about how your company can become a member of the Supply Chain Consortium, contact John Foley, 919-855-5461 or visit www.supplychainconsortium.com/new.

Partnership will increase the Network’s transportation and logistics capabilities in the southeast

Schuylkill Haven, PA (July 8, 2009)— The Evans Network of Companies announced its partnership with East Side Logistics, which will now operate as an Evans Delivery Company agency.

The service center will provide ocean and rail container drayage serving rail and ports of the southeast. Kevin Davis, Matt Grimm, and Charlie Pate operate the company located at 1321 Murfreesboro Pike, Ste 600 in Nashville, Tenn. The three agents have almost 60 years of intermodal experience combined.

“This new addition to the Network will increase our transportation and logistics capabilities, equipment and drivers for shippers,” said Matthew “Bo” Bates, Executive V.P. of Evans Network. “The service center is only five miles from every major interstate coming in and out of Nashville,” Mr. Bates continued.

“This partnership will offer our customers additional resources since Evans has a large network of 80 service centers in the United States,” said Kevin Davis, an agent operating the Nashville service center. “Evans’ strong reputation and dedication to its customers, agents, and drivers makes the company a good fit for our partner,” he continued.

Evans Delivery Company, a division of The Evans Network of Companies, is a market-leading logistics partner providing transportation services in the intermodal container and trailer drayage, van truckload and flatbed markets. Evans Network provides small business relationships with big business benefits to customers, network employees, agent partners and independent contractors.

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About The Evans Network of Companies

The Evans Network of Companies is a market-leading logistics partner with revenues over $185 million. The Evans Network has a fleet of over 1,350 tractors and 80 service centers throughout the country, providing transportation services in the intermodal container and trailer drayage, van truckload and flatbed markets encompassing six divisions: Evans Delivery Company, West Motor Freight, All Points Transport Corp., Hale Intermodal Trucking, Century Express and DM Transportation Management Services, a full service vendor inbound management company serving the Direct Marketing and Retail industries with over 350 clients. Evans Network provides customer-centric service and is dedicated to the safety and recognition of its network employees, agent partners and independent contractors. For more information, visit www.evansdelivery.com.

Interested in becoming an agent partner with the Evans Network? Call 1.877.39.EVANS

Media Contact: Kimberly McCloskey, BSY Associates Inc., (732) 817-0400 x28 or Kimberly@bsya.com

As part of its goal to retain a leadership role in ensuring a sustainable maritime industry, an Evergreen Marine Corp. container ship set sail Saturday as part of an ambitious project to measure and monitor the distribution of greenhouse gases in the Pacific Ocean. The EVER ULTRA is the first commercial marine vessel equipped to measure marine hydrocarbon and halocarbon emissions and is part of an international Pacific Greenhouse Gases Measurement (PGGM) project.

Taiwanese scientists at National Central University with the cooperation of Evergreen Marine Corp., the National Science Council (NSC), the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and the University of Cambridge initiated the PGGM project in 2008. The project will combine data from Taiwan’s FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC satellite. The FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC program is an international collaboration between Taiwan and the United States that uses a constellation of six remote sensing micro-satellites to collect atmospheric data for weather prediction and for ionosphere, climate and gravity research.

The US$70 million 980-foot-long vessel 5364 TEU Ever Ultra, which departed Saturday from the newly built Taipei Port destined for the Persian Gulf, is the first of three Evergreen ships that will participate in the project, with the second scheduled to sail to the Atlantic July 24, according to NCU.

Wang Kuo-ying, director of NCU’s Center for Environmental Studies, said prior to the Ever Ultra’s launch that the project would for the first time generate invaluable data from in-service container ships and aircraft, as opposed to fixed measurement stations. “This is an unprecedented effort that will over the next 20 years observe the global distribution of greenhouse gases, which will put Taiwan’s greenhouse gas observation on the same track as international studies,” Wang said.

K.W. Nieh, Evergreen Group spokesman, said: “The Evergreen Group is committed to playing its part in the battle to restrict global warming. Striking a balance between providing transport services and being environmentally sensitive is not easy but Evergreen’s strong sense of social responsibility will ensure that the company will seriously consider every possible way of minimizing the industry’s and its own global footprint. This will also enable its customers to develop greener supply chain systems.”

Evergreen’s S-type “Greenships” were the first to incorporate many new environmental features well beyond current international environmental requirements. These include a double-skinned hull with all fuel tanks situated within the transverse bulkhead spaces, thus minimizing the risk of oil pollution or fire as a result of grounding or collision. A high-capacity oily water separator enables the oil content of wastewater to be reduced to just 15ppm. Larger separator bilge oil and bilge oil holding tanks provide more storage capacity, enabling Greenships to maximize the amount of waste that can be held for ultimate disposal in specialized shore facilities.

Of the project—touted as a sign of Taiwan’s determination to join international forces in battling global warming, Wang said, “This is the best present that Taiwan can give to the world.”

The PGGM project will also collaborate with the European Union’s In-Service Aircraft for a Global Observing System (IAGOS) project to install instruments on commercial aircraft to monitor atmospheric composition and aerosols and gather data.

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Schuylkill Haven, PA—The Evans Network of Companies awarded three high school seniors and one college student with the Evans Network “Albert L. Evans Sr. Scholarship”.

Evans Network offers a four-year scholarship annually to students who have remarkable academic records and have a parent or guardian employed by Evans Network. Recipients will receive a total of $4,000 from Evans Network, $1,000 every year enrolled in higher education.

This year’s recipients were:

• Alex Cameron, a senior at Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. Alex’s parents, Casey and Karen are the owners of the Kaje agency, which is an Evans Delivery agency in Chesapeake, Virginia.

• Kayla Marie Joy, a senior at Plum Senior High School, in Plum, Pennsylvania. Kayla’s mother, Wendy, works in the Evans’s Pittsburgh office as an office administrator and dispatcher.

• Kasey Kimberly, a junior at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Kasey’s mother, Pam, is an independent contractor for Evans Delivery’s Savannah office.

• Carissa Pietsch, a senior at Spring-Ford High School, in Royersford, Pennsylvania. Carissa’s father, Tim, is a driver for West Motor Freight, a division of Evans Delivery.

To qualify for the scholarship, applicants completed an application, submitted his/her school transcript and two references from teachers, and wrote a personal statement describing their community service, previous accomplishments, future goals and individuals who have influenced them.

A committee of teachers and guidance counselors reviewed each application and selected the four recipients from an extensive pool of qualified and competitive students from all over the country.

About The Evans Network of Companies

The Evans Network of Companies is a market-leading logistics partner with revenues over $185 million. The Evans Network has a fleet of over 1,350 tractors and 80 service centers throughout the country, providing transportation services in the intermodal container and trailer drayage, van truckload and flatbed markets encompassing six divisions: Evans Delivery Company, West Motor Freight, All Points Transport Corp., Hale Intermodal Trucking, Century Express and DM Transportation Management Services, a full service vendor inbound management company serving the Direct Marketing and Retail industries with over 350 clients. Evans Network provides customer-centric service and is dedicated to the safety and recognition of its network employees, agent partners and independent contractors. For more information, visit www.evansdelivery.com. Interested in becoming an agent partner with the Evans Network? Call 1.877.39.EVANS

Media Contact: Kimberly McCloskey, (732) 817-0400 x28