Arnold Logistics Wins The Quaker Oats Company Northeast Regional Customer Service Award.LEBANON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1998--Arnold Logistics, a business unit of Arnold Industries Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AIND), has won the 1997 Quaker Oats Company Northeast Regional Less-than-truckload (LTL LTL - Linear Temporal Logic ) Customer Service Award. Arnold Logistics, a division of Arnold Transportation Services Inc., provides integrated warehousing and transportation services for The Quaker Oats Company from its facilities in Camp Hill, Pa. Integrating warehousing with LTL transportation services results in a higher level of service. Arnold Logistics provides stop-off transportation service and utilizes New Penn Motor Express for small shipments. The award is given annually to those companies meeting or exceeding goals set by The Quaker Oats Company for on-time delivery, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. transmission of shipment status data and rating accuracy. Arnold Logistics provided 100% on-time delivery, 100% EDI compliance and 99.6% rating accuracy for the entire year 1997. "By satisfying the requirements for the award, Arnold Logistics hasshown The Quaker Oats Company and our customers that it delivers a very high rate of satisfaction and service. We are proud to have Arnold Logistics handling our freight", said Douglas Duszynski, director of transportation for The Quaker Oats Company. Arnold Logistics General Manager Douglas B. Enck said, "We are committed to superior quality as evidenced by the perfect score in the American Institute of Baking The American Institute of Baking is a not-for-profit corporation, founded by the North American wholesale and retail baking industries in 1919 as a technology transfer center for bakers and food processors. (AIB AIB n abbr (BRIT) (= Accident Investigation Bureau) → oficina de investigación de accidentes AIB n abbr (Brit) (= Accident Investigation Bureau) → ) audit of our food grade warehousing facilities, and by The Quaker Oats Company award for our transportation services. All of us at Arnold Logistics are extremely proud to receive this recognition." Arnold Industries is a transportation and logistics holding company. Business units include New Penn Motor Express, a Northeast regional next-day less-than-truckload carrier, Arnold Transportation Services, an irregular route and dedicated truckload carrier Merrian-Webster online dictionary defines truckload as " a load or amount that fills or could fill a truck". A truckload carrier is a trucking company that generally contracts an entire trailer-load to a single customer. , and Arnold Logistics, which provides integrated warehousing, distribution, order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment and contract packaging services. Operating revenues of Arnold Industries totaled $383 million in 1997. For more information, please visit us at www.aind.com.
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