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Company Profile for Roadway Corporation.


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Roadway Corporation (Nasdaq:ROAD), is a holding company dedicated to leveraging opportunities to expand the transportation-related service offerings available to customers through the Roadway portfolio of strategically linked transportation companies related to Roadway's core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
  1. It provides customer benefits
  2. It is hard for competitors to imitate
  3. It can be leveraged widely to many products and markets.
 in transportation and related e-business (Electronic-BUSINESS) Doing business online. The term is often used synonymously with e-commerce, but e-business is more of an umbrella term for having a presence on the Web.  solutions. The Corporation's acquisition activities will focus on high quality, profitable companies that offer services not currently available from its other holdings. The Company's 2002 revenues were $3.1 billion.

Roadway Corporation's principal subsidiaries include Roadway Express Roadway is an operating company within YRC National Transportation, a division of YRC Worldwide which is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. The company services all (50) states as Roadway, services Canada with its subsidiary, Reimer Express.  and Roadway Next Day Corporation. Roadway Express is a leading ISO (1) See ISO speed.

(2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI.
 9001 and C-TPAT/PIP and FAST certified See certification.  transporter of industrial, commercial and retail goods in the two- to five-day regional and long-haul long haul
n.
1. A long distance: It is a long haul from New York to Los Angeles.

2. A long period of time: Over the long haul the candidates performed well.
 markets. Roadway Express provides seamless service throughout all 50 states, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla.  including export/import services for more than 100 countries worldwide. Roadway Express owns Reimer Express Lines in Canada and Mexican-based Roadway Express, S.A. de C.V. Roadway Next Day Corporation is a holding company focused on business opportunities in the shorter-haul regional and next-day markets. Roadway Next Day Corporation owns New Penn Motor Express, a next-day, ground less-than-truckload carrier of general commodities serving twelve states in the Northeastern United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Quebec, Canada and Puerto Rico, with links to the Midwest and Southeast United States and Ontario, Canada.

   Company:                Roadway Corporation

   Headquarters Address:   1077 Gorge Blvd.
                           Akron, Ohio 44310

   Main Telephone:         330/384-1717

   Website:                www.roadwaycorp.com

   Ticker:                 ROAD(NASDAQ)

   Type of Organization:   Public

   Industry:               Transport: Trucking

   Earnings Release Dates: 1st Quarter: April 15, 2003
                           2nd Quarter: July 8, 2003
                           3rd Quarter: September 30, 2003
                           4th Quarter: January 20, 2004


   Key Executives:         CEO: James Staley
                           CFO: Dawson Cunningham
                           President: Robert Stull

   Investor Relations
     Contact:              John Hyre
     Phone:                330/258-6080
     Email:                jhyre@roadwaycorp.com

   Investor Relations
     Contact:              Carol Schneider
     Phone:                330/643-6608
     Email:                cschneider@roadwaycorp.com
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