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What To Know About The New Aurora Cannabis Chief Science Officer
2018 Nov 14, 3:19pmRead More...Aurora Cannabis Inc (NYSE: ACB) made an addition to its executive team with new chief science officer. The appointment will help the company improve its scientific methods that it uses in Cannabis research and cultivation processes. Who To Know Aurora appointed Dr. Jonathan Page as the new...
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Virgin Hyperloop Names Jay Walder, Former Head Of Motivate, CEO
2018 Nov 12, 1:01pmRead More...Virgin Hyperloop, which has lately been in the midst of a power change at its helm, announced a new chief executive, Jay Walder, who replaces Rob Lloyd, the man who headed the company for over three years. By selecting Walder, Virgin Hyperloop is marrying its futuristic technology of hyperloop to...
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TFI International Names David Saperstein CFO
2018 Nov 09, 3:20pmRead More...TFI International, a Montreal, Canada-based transport and logistics company, made two significant personnel announcements this week. David Saperstein has been promoted to chief financial officer of TFI International and Greg Orr, currently president of U.S. Truckload, has been promoted to executive...
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A Look At Robyn Denholm, The Woman Who Will Replace Elon Musk As Tesla Chair
2018 Nov 08, 9:26amRead More...CEO Elon Musk led Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) through a remarkable third quarter, which yielded significant revenue growth and a profit widely unexpected by Street experts. But those benchmarks weren’t enough to fully pardon Musk’s mercurial leadership. As mandated by the Securities and...
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UPS To Wind Down LTL Business Until Outcome Of Contract Vote Decided
2018 Nov 02, 3:03pmRead More...United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said today it will temporarily suspend the operations of its less-than-truckload unit, UPS Freight, at least until Teamsters union members vote for a second time on a collective bargaining agreement, and it has advised customers in the meantime to seek...
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Canadian National Railway Makes Rare Move Into Trucking With Deal For Trans X
2018 Nov 01, 8:09amRead More...Canada's largest railroad boosts intermodal and refrigerated service offering with acquisition of major trucking company. Canadian National Railway (Nyse: CNI) is doubling down on its intermodal and refrigerated business with the acquisition of Winnipeg-based carrier Trans X Ltd. One...
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FreightWaves Releases Agricultural Commodities And Warehouse Data
2018 Nov 01, 8:05amRead More...FreightWaves has released 48 new agricultural commodities along with three new warehouse rent and availability indices. Freight movements are greatly impacted by commodity flows of all kinds, but none more immediate and significant than the agricultural variety. Regardless of the freight or...
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Elon Musk Buys $10M In Tesla Shares: Is It A Buy Or Sell Signal?
2018 Oct 30, 10:32amRead More...Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has once again put his money where his mouth is, buying roughly another 30,000 shares of Tesla stock in the open market at a price of around $335 per share. Benzinga took a look back at the last several times Musk purchased Tesla stock and how the share price...
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Old Dominion's Q3 Results: Best In Class LTL And Getting Better
2018 Oct 26, 11:15amRead More...Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ: ODFL) reported impressive revenue and earnings growth on a call with equities analysts this morning. President and CEO Greg Gantt and Adam Satterfield, SVP and CFO, led the presentation. OD's top line revenue grew 21.2 percent year over year to $1.06B and...
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Union Pacific Tries To Silence Any Skeptics: Don't Doubt Our Commitment To Precision Railroading
2018 Oct 26, 11:11amRead More...Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) executives on the company's third quarter earnings call moved to dispel any doubt that they are "all in" on switching the company's operations to precision railroading principles, attempting to push back against what one executive on the call...
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UPS Alum Alan Gershenhorn Joins 8VC In Advisory Role
2018 Oct 26, 9:47amRead More...8VC, the venture capital fund dedicated to solving real-world problems through industry transformation, announced Alan Gershenhorn, former Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of United Parcel Service, Inc., (Nyse: UPS), has joined the firm as an advisor. Gershenhorn will lend his...
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Twitter CFO Talks Q3, Plans To Grow MAU
2018 Oct 25, 11:49amRead More...Social media platform Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) reported Thursday with a top-and-bottom-line beat in its third quarter, but monthly active users fell from a year ago. Twitter CFO Ned Segal told CNBC after the print that the company remains focused on drawing new users. What...
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Innovate Or Die: E-Commerce And The Iconic Bankruptcy Of Sears
2018 Oct 24, 8:58amRead More...As of an August 4 filing, Sears Holdings still had 506 Sears locations and 360 Kmart locations. The retailer, which sought chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, N.Y., reached a deal with its lenders that will allow the 125-year-old company to keep hundreds of its stores...
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Norfolk Southern's CEO Says 'Atlanta' In A Video To Employees About Relocation
2018 Oct 22, 9:53amRead More...About the only thing left is the formal announcement, or a shocking about-face. A video released to Norfolk Southern Corp. (Nyse: NSC) employees last Thursday--one that is not publicly released by the company on its web page--was obtained by the Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk's daily newspaper. And...
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Heartland's CEO Defends Company's Strategy And Its Drop In Revenue
2018 Oct 19, 10:00amRead More...The CEO of Heartland Express, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTLD) defended the company's strategy Thursday in a phone interview with FreightWaves, saying that some analysts who are critical of the company's approach "don't understand our story." CEO Michael Gerdin said Heartland is "...
