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United Parcel Service Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott Davis took a 15 percent cut to his total compensation in 2013, the same year the package shipping and logistics giant’s profit plunged nearly 82 percent.
The project, with a total value of $80 million, will add 140,000 square feet and a 54,000-gallon natural gas fueling station to the already 293,345-square-foot facility, creating 15 new jobs for the area. UPS received an 11-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes benefit from the Economic Development Growth Engine of Memphis & Shelby County for the project in November.
James Tompkins, who runs Tompkins International, a Raleigh, N.C.-based consultancy, said Amazon has divided the nation into three segments based on population size: The top 40 markets, which comprise about half of the U.S. population; the next 60 largest population areas that account for about 17 percent, and the remaining areas, which account for about one-third.
UPS Inc., which today handles much of Seattle-based Amazon’s current deliveries, will not play a prominent role in the network realignment, Tompkins said. Nor will FedEx Corp., which manages a lesser portion of Amazon’s delivery business. An Amazon spokeswoman was unavailable to comment.
The Lewiston man faces four years in prison and fines of $251,000.
A United Parcel Service worker pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a sting operation last year in which his hands and face were splattered with blue dye when he tried to steal drugs from a package that he thought was intended for a Maine veteran.
Nathan Brown, 24, of Lewiston pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to theft from an interstate shipment and possession of oxycodone.
Hundreds of UPS delivery drivers walked off the job in Queens on Wednesday morning.
The drivers from Teamsters Local 804 in Long Island City stood in the snow to protest working conditions.