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Description:

Canada's largest courier company

Corporate tagline:

Where business is going

Corporate head office:

5995 Avebury Rd.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Ownership:

Canada Post Corporation (91%), Barry Lapointe Holdings Ltd. (7%) Other (2%)

President and C.E.O.:

William A. Henderson

2009 revenue:

$1.4 billion

Employees:

11,300, of which more than 3,500 are couriers

Facilities:

123 operations locations
20 regional sales offices
147 Shipping Centres
550+ Authorized Shipping Agents
350+ drop boxes
2 Customer Contact Centres

Call volume:

Customer Contact Centre professionals respond to more than 30,000 - 35,000 calls daily

Vehicles/aircraft:

3,152 courier vehicles
136 medium trucks
1,064 highway trailers
436 tractors
21 dedicated chartered aircraft
943 ground support equipment

Average number of pieces handled:

Daily: 1.1 million pieces (delivery and pick up)
Weekly: 5.5 million pieces (delivery and pick up)
Monthly: 22 million pieces (delivery and pick up)
Annually: 275 million pieces (delivery and pick up)
70 per cent of the pieces handled are manufactured goods and 30 per cent are documents

Air freight volume:

Purolator moves 400,000 pounds of air freight each night, and 100 million pounds of air freight each year

International delivery:

Purolator International provides import and export services to and from Canada servicing 210 countries

Updated April 14, 2010