Atlanta-based shipping giant United Parcel Service, (UPS) is buying the assets of Mail Boxes Etc., (MBE) a subsidiary of San Diego-based US Office Products. Terms of the cash transaction were not ...

NEW YORK Tasti D-Lite, the 44-unit frozen dessert chain, was acquired earlier this month by SPG Partners LLC, a New York private-equity firm, and James Amos, the former chairman and chief executive of ...

IN a strip shopping center near Jersey Village in northwest Houston, Frank Bivens is making his last stand. A FedEx sign hangs in the window of his Mail Boxes Etc. store, a symbol of his defiance.

United Parcel Service Inc. agreed to buy retail shipping franchiser Mail Boxes Etc. in a bid to capture a bigger share of the growing business in home and small-office shipments. San Diego-based Mail ...