NIADA Adds uShip to National Member Benefits Program – Auto Remarketing

ARLINGTON, Texas — To address dealers’ concern about rising vehicle transport costs, executives from uShip revealed earlier this week they were picked for the National Member Benefits Program of the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association. Basically, the inclusion means NIADA members now have customized access to finding specialized transporters on uShip, a Web-based shipping marketplace where… Read More

uShip Quadruples Space, Expanding Overseas – Austin Business Journal

Thursday, July 22, 2010, 8:23am CDT Austin’s online movers marketplace UShip Inc. is moving downtown later this year, picking up new employees and taking the company further around the globe. The company, which hosts Web-based auctions for shippers, has signed a lease for an entire downtown historic building at 205 Brazos Street currently occupied by the McGarrah Jessee ad… Read More

uShip Selects Amsterdam as European Headquarters – I Amsterdam

uShip, an online shipping marketplace that connects people with customer-reviewed transport companies, has chosen Amsterdam as the location for its new European headquarters. Expansion uShip continues its rapid expansion internationally. The company set up their European headquarters in Amsterdam and announced the appointment of Shawn Bose as the new VP & GM, Global business. In… Read More

uShip Moving Downtown – Austin Startup

Austin-based uShip has been on a solid growth trend lately, typified by today’s announcement that they’re moving downtown. The startup is currently fitting 65 people into it’s 4,500 square foot office space on S. Congress. Their new digs in the McGarragh Jessee building on 2nd and Brazos are going to seem spacious by comparison, measuring… Read More

uShip to Move Into New Downtown Office Space – Austin American Statesman

Fast-growing online shipping auction company has outgrown its South Congress Avenue space By Shonda Novak  AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Published: 12:06 a.m. Thursday, July 22, 2010 uShip Inc., a fast-growing company that hosts online auctions for shipping services, will make downtown Austin its home when it moves later this year into a turn-of-the-century building currently occupied by advertising agency McGarrah Jessee. “Obviously, Austin… Read More

New eBay Site Offers Delivery Alternatives – NetImperative.com

eBay Advertising has launched a Delivery Services Hub, a central point within eBay for shipping, courier and delivery companies to showcase their services to buyers and sellers of the 20 million items purchased on eBay every year. The eBay Delivery Services Hub – available at http://partner.ebay.co.uk/delivery-services -provides a single destination where shipping carriers (including lead sponsor Safestore)   purchase ‘blocks’ of space to showcase their offerings… Read More

Girvan Business Sold to Industry Giants – Ayrshire Post (UK)

A tiny Girvan business started by a husband and wife team in their back room has been sold to global industry leaders. Boxby Ltd, which brings couriers and their customers together, sealed the deal with Texas-based uShip Inc this week. Sandra and Alistair Patterson, who founded Boxby, are delighted although they refused to reveal how much… Read More

Acquisition of Scotland based Boxby Ltd. – CRWEWallStreet.com

Reported by Hassan Mohammad Zaman Have you heard this news? For an unveiled amount uShip Inc., has acquired a Scottish company Boxby Ltd. uShip Inc. is an Austin based private company, categorized under Online Service Providers. Contemporary guesstimates shows, this company has annual revenue of 2,400,000. After acquisition, uShip has established a new European headquarters… Read More

uShip Acquires UK Courier Exchange boxby.co.uk – AustinStartup

uShip, the global online transport marketplace, today announced the acquisition of boxby.co.uk, the UK’s first web site to offer a transport exchange for couriers. The transaction provides UK house removal firms and eBay couriers access to more delivery jobs, helping them run full and more efficiently as they battle rising fuels costs and VAT increases…. Read More