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Riley Life is looking for a Marketing Intern

Riley Life Logistics (www.rileylife.com) is a rapidly growing, mission-driven company based out of RTP, NC. At Riley Life, we provide order fulfillment for online retailers as well as special projects with logistics needs for marketing departments and agencies. We are currently looking for an intern to assist with social media and marketing. The intern will [...]

Research Shows that the Season’s Best Sales are Still to Come

BY STEPHANIE CLIFFORD – New York Times News Service Oren Etzioni writes articles about artificial intelligence for scholarly journals, is a renowned expert on data mining and gained fame when Microsoft paid $115 million for Farecast, an airline-ticket price predictor he founded. Now, Etzioni, who teaches computer science at the University of Washington, has directed [...]

Record Black Friday and Thanksgiving E-Commerce Sales

By Associated Press On the eve of “Cyber Monday,” online retailers reported an even stronger start to the holiday shopping season than brick-and-mortar stores. Research firm comScore reported on Sunday that e-commerce spending jumped 26 percent on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, compared with the same day a year ago. ComScore reported $816 million [...]

Riley Life Wins “Company to Watch” Award

CED (Council for Entrepreneurial Development) named the winners of 2011 North Carolina Companies To Watch Award. Riley Life Logistics was selected as one of 25 winners. Riley Life Logistics will be honored at an awards ceremony September 21st in Bay 7 at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham. The North Carolina Companies to Watch were [...]

Riley Life and Kinder Soles featured today in Raleigh News & Observer

See the article in full here. Here is a preview: A little more than a year ago, local boy Mark Saad launched Kinder Soles, a socially conscious footwear company specializing in flip-flops made of recycled materials. Now he’s teamed with Chris Bingham of Riley Life Logistics, a Durham shipping company, to create the SoleMates Foundation. [...]

A Minute of Your Time

Reposted from the blog of company President & Chief Passion Officer – Chris Bingham Have you ever thought about the value of a minute of your time? Think about how productive you could be if you aimed to do something of value with each minute of your time. As I work to try to get [...]

Triangle Business Journal Features Riley Life

Click here for PDF version of Riley Life Logistics Feature in July 15, 2011 edition of the Triangle Business Journal    Send article as PDF   

Riley Life and Kinder Soles Create SoleMates Foundation

Mark Saad, the co-founder and Chief Kinder Sole of Kinder Soles, a socially responsible flip flop company offering footwear made from recycled materials, and Chris Bingham, President and Chief Passion Officer of Riley Life Logistics, a certified B Corporation, today announce the launch of a new non-profit organization, the SoleMates Foundation. Aimed to increase awareness [...]

Three Suggestions for the US Postal Service

I will admit that my ideas for solutions here are very forward thinking and optimistic for a “company” that is ultimately a monopoly and obviously funded by outside sources that do not seem to give any regard to the success of this company.  However, as a tax payer and logistics professional touched daily by the [...]

The SAS of Logistics

Reprinted from the personal blog of CEO – Chris Bingham. Talk to anyone in the Raleigh area and you’ll hear that the place to work is SAS. Well, word got out a few years back and in 2010 & 2011 SAS was named FORTUNE Magazine’s Best Place to Work – in the entire United States. [...]