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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. [...]

Why I started a logistics company – by CEO Chris Bingham

Reposted from Chris’ personal blog at www.chrisbingham.org Some of my friends have started tech companies. I will admit, those guys have started far more sexy businesses than mine. My feeling is that success is sexy. Most of you who know me, know that I don’t define success as making money but rather as making impact. [...]

Who is Riley Life Logistics?

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Riley Life CEO Named Top Young Leader in Triangle

RALEIGH, NC – Riley Life Logistics is proud to announce that Chris Bingham, company President & Chief Passion Officer, has been selected as a 2011 winner of Triangle Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” awards. This prestigious award recognizes forty prominent business leaders under forty years old in the Triangle. He was honored at the eleventh [...]

That Beautiful Box You Opened

We could name countless ways in which people are working to “be green” – consuming fewer natural resources. Unfortunately, shipping and logistics is an industry that requires vast resource consumption with use of about 10% of overall fuel consumed in the US each year.  Additionally, packaging materials are vast in their consumption, especially boxes. For [...]