The Freight & Transportation Management Trends to Know in 2018

February 22, 2018

The e-commerce market is expanding. E-commerce passed $2 trillion in 2017 with sales expected to surpass $3.2 trillion by 2020. Although this sounds great for most industries, it represents a major problem for the freight trucking industry. Amazon has already taken extensive steps to establish itself as a logistics leader.

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At Imperial, we improve our clients’ competitiveness through customising our experience in outsourced value chain management. Our diverse experience and expansive capabilities extend from procurement to brand activation, and include all the logistics services in between. As a result, Imperial Logistics is the only company that can take materials and products from their original source - via manufacturing - to the end-consumer point of sale. “Get me there; sell my product; build my brand” is the way we describe our integrated, end-to-end value proposition. Our strategy is fortified by our position as a leading distributor of FMCG, pharma, liquor, tobacco and general merchandise products - through which Imperial has the unique capability to “sell my product”. The strategy is further augmented in the brand conscious African market by our brand activation services - the capability to “build my brand” which provide the ability to “pull’ products through the value chain to the end consum

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