iGPS Named One of the Top 100 Companies for Working Families

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC), operator of North America’s first pallet rental service to provide lightweight, 100 percent recyclable plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, has been named as one of the top 100 companies for working families in Central Florida. The list, compiled by the Orlando Sentinel, recognizes companies [...]

iGPS Named to Inbound Logistics Top 75 Green Supply Chain Partners

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC), operator of the world’s first pallet rental service to provide lightweight, 100 percent recyclable plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, has been named as one of the nation’s top 75 Green Supply Chain Partners. The award, given by Inbound Logistics magazine, recognizes “visionaries who every [...]

Bobby Moore Sues iGPS

PackagingRevolution.net has received a legal document (Moore_vs_iGPS_071211) indicating that the often controversial Bobby L. Moore, founder and former CEO of iGPS, a plastic pallet rental company, is suing the company that he founded.  His suit is against iGPS, along with iGPS financial backers, including Pegasus and others. Filed in the Supreme Court of the State [...]

Enfora, iGPS and Numerex Win Gold at 2011 Connected World Value Chain Awards

Congratulations are in order for the triad of Enfora, Inc., a Novatel Wireless company, iGPS Company and Numerex Corp (NASDAQ: NMRX) for winning in the 2011 Connected World Value Chain Awards in the Supply Chain and Logistics category, for the combined implementation of the world’s first real-time pallet tracking service. iGPS operates the world’s largest [...]

Pallet Maker TriEnda Sold

Plastic pallet maker TriEnda LLC, well known as a supplier of plastic pallets to USPS and more recently as the supplier to Schoeller Arca Systems of iGPS top pallet decks, has been sold. Here’s the report from Plastics News: PORTAGE, WIS. (June 27, 12:30 p.m. ET) — Custom thermoformer TriEnda LLC has been sold, and [...]

New Pharma Recall Leaves More Bad Smell, Points to the Value of Effective Pallet Management

Here we go again with musty smelling pharmaceutical products, and at $900 million in lost sales and running, what arguably is turning into the most powerful serial case study ever chronicled on the downside of poor pallet management. Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc is recalling some 40,000 bottles of pills. These include 16,000 bottles of brand-name Risperdal [...]

Making Pallets a Supply Chain Asset Instead of an Unrecoverable Cost

With another pharmaceutical recall in the news and opinion from the manufacturer that the smell “is thought” to be related to wood pallets and TBA, iGPS has posted the following article at PharmaceuticalCommerce.com. Recent product contamination incidents are highlighting the importance of having reliably clean pallets for warehousing and shipping The typical supply chain process [...]

Are Your Pallets Carrying Too Much Cost?

This article from Food Logistics includes interviews with Derek Hannum of CHEP, Mike Hachtman of IFCO Systems, Steve Harrison of Rehrig Pacific, Chaille Brindley of Pallet Enterprise, Bruce Scholnick of NWPCA, Abby Verbeten of Orbis, and Bob Moore, until recently the CEO of iGPS. It touches on the importance of providers and customers collaborating to [...]

ConAgra Jumps from iGPS and Returns to CHEP, Dole Announcement One More Challenge for White Wood

What a difference a year makes! ConAgra is now back in the CHEP fold. It was just last June that ConAgra announced it would be transitioning its pallet rental requirements to iGPS in a move said to be worth $40 million a year. Brambles downplayed the significance of the pallet rental business loss, saying that [...]

Steve Marton Named as Interim CEO at iGPS

Following ongoing rumors that Bob Moore would be or had been replaced as CEO of iGPS, the Pegasus Capital Advisors website is now reporting that Steve Marton of Pegasus is currently serving as interim Chief Executive Officer of iGPS, as reported last week in the Pallet Profile Weekly. Moore is still listed as Chairman of [...]

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