Category: UPS Press Release

Franciscan Health Olympia Fields and Chicago’s Weiss Memorial Hospitals are receiving direct shipments from UPS

The first VOCSN V+Pro critical care ventilators produced by General Motors and Ventec Life Systems in Kokomo, Indiana are being delivered by UPS to Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Olympia Fields, Illinois and Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago at the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The milestone shipments are putting important tools in the hands of frontline medical professionals treating patients seriously ill with COVID-19.

UPS Details Efforts to Fight COVID-19 and Enhance its Unmatched Network to Power Customers’ Supply Chains to Deliver Needed Goods and Services to Save Lives

UPS “Brown Army” Supporting Front Line Workers, Communities, Business, and Government and Showing the Power of Logistics to Combat COVID-19

UPS (NYSE: UPS) today detailed a comprehensive set of actions it has taken to fight COVID-19 and to keep the American and global economy moving. The company, supported by 495,000 UPSers, its smart logistics network, its technology expertise, and working hand in hand with customers and government, is proactively implementing solutions to ensure life-saving materials and equipment are delivered rapidly to where they are needed most.

Experts convene to discuss digital marketing strategies during pandemic

With most consumers sheltered in place, many small and medium-sized businesses are isolated from their customer base. To help them stay connected, UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced a webinar designed to help SMBs adapt and transform marketing strategies to digital. The free webinar will be held at 1 PM (EDT) on Thursday, April 16.

UPS and digital experience agency Econsultancy will discuss strategies to convert marketing, commerce, and customer engagement to digital and make the most of digital platforms and channels. The experts will provide tips for SMBs to increase reach and generate brand awareness, communicate and engage in an unpredictable environment, and optimize conversions through their website.

Ware2Go, a UPS company that helps merchants simplify fast delivery to customers, is partnering with 1M Masks, a New York City grassroots initiative, to ship one million medical masks to healthcare workers, quickly and at no cost.

Ware2Go is donating its logistics technology, network of warehouses, and fulfillment and shipping services to allow medical providers to order free personal protective equipment (PPE) from the 1M Masks website. Ware2Go connected the 1M Masks website to its platform so healthcare professionals can quickly and easily place orders and receive free PPE, reducing the friction of getting the gear they need. Within a week, the Ware2Go enabled e-commerce ordering process started shipping much-needed supplies to frontline healthcare workers and can ship PPE across the nation.

• QIAGEN dramatically ramping up production capacity to get testing solutions to labs and hospitals across the world via UPS’s smart global logistics network
• UPS helping QIAGEN deploy products worldwide, including the first syndromic testing solution that can differentiate novel Coronavirus from 20 other serious respiratory infections in approximately one hour

UPS, a global leader in logistics, today announced that it is working with QIAGEN, a leading global provider of molecular diagnostics and sample preparation technologies, to deliver nucleic acid extraction kits critical to COVID-19 testing, as well as its novel QIAstat-Dx Coronavirus testing cartridges to destinations around the world. With governments and public authorities classifying UPS as an essential service provider, the company is combining the flexibility of its global network with QIAGEN’s increased production capacity for COVID-19 testing kits produced at their facility in Hilden, Germany to help healthcare workers curb the spread of the disease.