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The "conveyor belt" for global commerce is how Scott Davis, the boss of UPS, describes his company, the world’s biggest express-
The "conveyor belt" for global commerce is how Scott Davis, the boss of UPS, describes his company, the world’s biggest express-
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2015-03-20
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The "conveyor belt" for global commerce is how Scott Davis, the boss of UPS, describes his company, the world’s biggest express-parcel shipper. On March 19th UPS announced that it would buy TNT Express, a Dutch competitor, for $6.8 billion. The deal adds TNT’s large regional network to UPS’ s vast global one. The merged firm will be much larger than FedEx or DHL, its main rivals.
It is a good time to strike a deal. TNT Express, which split from TNT’s mail-delivery firm last year, has wobbled as the world economy has faltered. Its share price is depressed, but its prospects are not bad. As the world economy revives, package-toters with global networks should thrive.
The big three have the field to themselves. The huge capital costs of building a worldwide network of planes and trucks to ensure swift deliveries of parcels, documents and freight
keeps smaller rivals at bay
. And the more complete the network, the better customers are served. TNT Express’ s business fills a gap in Europe, where UPS lacks a road-freight operation. It also has a struggling business in fast-growing Brazil that UPS reckons it can fix.
Strong growth looks set to resume. Express delivery is enabling smaller firms to run the long global supply chains favoured by big companies, helping everyone to save cash. UPS reckons technology and demography offer plenty more scope for shifting parcels.
First, technology. E-mail may have killed the letter, but online shopping is great for parcel-deliverers. Shifting things bought on the internet is 30% of UPS’ s business in America. That jumps to 50% at Christmas and other peak times. And as people everywhere discover the joy of shopping from the sofa, the business has excellent growth prospects. Online shoppers don’t care whether goods come from a few streets away or must be shipped, more profitably, from another continent.
Second, demography. Greying populations seem an unlikely source of profits. Yet to contain spiralling health-care costs, older folk are increasingly receiving treatment at home rather than in hospital. UPS already has a good business ensuring that organs and skin grafts get to hospitals in good time.(Transplant patients prefer not to wait.)The next bonanza, it reckons, will be delivering drugs and medical devices to patients’ doors.
All of the following are benefits of the deal EXCEPT_____.
选项
A、the deal adds TNT’ s large regional network to UPS’ s vast global one
B、UPS will help TNT Express to thrive soon
C、TNT Express’ s business in Europe helps UPS to improve its road-freight operation
D、UPS may fix TNT Express’s business in fast-growing Brazil
答案
B
解析
由题干可知,此题需要运用排除法。A项为第一段中的原话,正确。原文第二段只是提到package-toters with global networks should thrive,即TNT Express应该能够振兴,但没有提到UPS will help。实际上,UPS正是看到了TNT的良好前景才去并购它,因此B项属于过度推断。根据第三段最后两句可知,并购使UPS和TNT优势互补,对双方都有好处,C、D两项正确。故选B项。
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