Overview
In the late 1990s, James Dowd was on a business trip to Brussels for his former employer, DHL. He was touring the sorting and distribution facility there and experienced firsthand all of the moving parts that it took to complete just one portion of a shipment. As conveyor belts moved packages through the maze that was the facility, his guide proudly boasted that they only lost 86 packages of every 1000 they handle.
“Eighty-six out of a thousand?” he thought. “There’s got to be a better way.”
Dowd returned to New York, researched the shipping giants—FedEx, UPS, and DHL—and looked into on-board couriers out of JFK International Airport.
He realized that the key to breaking the deadlock was that big shippers work off of tonnage. They wait to ship until there is a plane-load of packages ready to send to a particular region, or that choose to route them through other, less convenient locations to get them to their final destinations.
As a small shipper, he realized he could operate more nimbly. He could get packages to their final destinations faster and cheaper than the current alternatives. He realized that the key was shipping direct.
In 2000 he founded FGX, offering clients the opportunity to ship direct. By 2002, the idea was catching on, and the company registered $1 million in sales. This year, the company projects revenues will have quintupled to $5 million.
In 2008, FGX launched ShipGreener.com, the company’s blog site that is documenting its conversion to a greener shipper. Spearheaded by Justin Brown, executive vice president of sales, FGX is converting its operations into a greener shipping solution and is offering your company the possibility of reducing your carbon footprint by at least 35% by shipping direct. (Learn more about greener shipping.)
Over the next five years, FGX plans to keep growing, replicating its model for clients worldwide. Every day, FGX offers you the chance to save money, cut time off of your deliveries, and reduce your carbon footprint—all through the simple solution of shipping direct.
At FGX, we’ll go the distance, without the extra miles. We’ll raise the bar on your expectations of what an international courier company should be. Take the One-Week-Free New Client Challenge and let us prove it to you. Contact Justin today.
Save money. Save time. Save the planet. Call the shipping superheroes at FGX .