Business Research The business I so happen to be researching is the company that has been employing me for the past 2 years, Q Ship USA Corp. dating back to January of 2012, Q Ship USA used to be called Quick Transfer USA. Till issues down the road with the name it had to be D/B/A (doing business as) and the current company Q Ship USA Corporation came to be. It falls under the Tertiary sector of the economy, the transportation service sector. It is a third party logistics company servicing the entire United States and Canada. A 3rd party Logistics Company, or freight broker which it is otherwise known as, is the middle man between a shipper and a trucking carrier. Our goal is to find the best price and hassle free logistics planning for each …show more content…
Most of the time it isn’t having the enough funding to begin, in this case, funding was not the issue. Charles Kohn CEO of the company BDB Payroll for 22 years has more than enough money to take this freight brokerage company off the ground. The issue our company had was getting into the trucking industry. Since this industry is the back bone of America, if it weren’t for shipping and logistics, no goods would be delivered from the manufacturer to the store; this industry will never lose business. Having such big companies such as FedEx or UPS as competition, it is hard to get noticed because most companies use these company’s logistics services. Threw consistency Charles was able to hire and train a strong operational, sales and marketing team which 2 years ago was only 5 people. Today, we are 14 employees strong. Another struggle was creating the company as a sole proprietorship (Quick Transfer USA.) Beginning to a slow start and not knowing if this company would really take off the ground. A few legal moves were made, and discovering another company with a name close to ours, we decided to change the name of the company to Q Ship USA, and now instead of a sole proprietorship, we made it into a