Stan Deans Named President of UPS Illinois District

Chicago, June 28, 2010

Stan Deans, a 27-year UPS veteran, has assumed command as president of the company's new and expanded Illinois District, directing small package operations in an area that covers metropolitan Chicago and most of Illinois.

The Illinois District is one of 20 new Districts dividing the United States activated earlier this year. It includes all but a small southwest slice of the state on the Missouri border and features a package-delivery operation with some 12,000 employees.

Deans most recently served as the manager of UPS's Metro Chicago District, which has been consolidated into the new District. He began his UPS career in 1983 as a package handler in Wisconsin. He was named a hub sort manager in 1990 in the Indiana District and after moving through a series of jobs of increasing responsibility, was named manager of the North Jersey District in 2002. He subsequently served as manager of the Metro Jersey District, then became the Europe Region District coordinator in 2005 before taking command of Metro Chicago.

UPS announced in January it was going to streamline its domestic management structure to improve overall performance by reducing the number of U.S. Districts from 46 to 20. Thanks to today's technology and the management strengths of its people, a District office now can oversee a much larger geographic area than in years' past.

As part of the realignment, UPS also is expanding its outreach to customers by strengthening local sales and marketing efforts. No package handling facilities have been affected by the consolidation of management offices, nor have any UPS drivers or package handlers.