FedEx Express, one of FedEx Corporation’s businesses, hired 45,000 new full-time employees in the year ended May 31, 2021. Thus, the company reached a workforce of 183,000 permanent full-time employees. At the same time, it closed that fiscal year with approximately 61,000 permanent part-time employees, about 1,000 fewer
Diageo highlighted new opportunities in spirits, beers, tequila and other alcoholic beverages from recent trade deals. The company’s products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world and its brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, JεB, Buchanan’s and Windsor whiskeys, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas,
The European Union, Japan, the United States, Mexico and China topped the ranking of the 10 largest exporters of automotive products in the world in 2020, according to data from the World Trade Organization (WTO). While the European Union’s exports of automotive products totaled 609,000 million dollars, its
Canada‘s exports reached a record C $ 53.8 billion in June, an increase of 8.7% year-on-year, Statistics Canada reported. Excluding the strong fluctuations in 2020, value growth in June was the highest on record. Exports increased in 9 of the 11 product sections and non-energy exports rose 5.5
Canada‘s imports declined 1.0% in June, to C $ 50.5 billion, Statistics of Canada reported. Imports fell in seven of the 11 product sections. In real (or volume) terms, total imports contracted 2.2% in June. On the one hand, imports of consumer goods (-3.7%) were the ones that
Mexico was ranked as the first commercial partner of the United States in the first half of 2021, reported the Census Bureau. Of all merchandise trade between the United States and the world, Mexico’s share was 14.7% in that period. Then came Canada (14.6%) and China (13.8 percent).