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Allen Lund Company Press Release
ALC Participates in Foothills Relay for Life
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La Canada Flintridge, Calif., May 27, 2011 -- May 14th - 15th the Allen Lund Company sponsored and participated in the 11th annual Foothills Relay for Life. With both family and employees walking the track from 9:00 a.m. Saturday until 9:00 a.m. Sunday, Lund's Life Lights raised over $10,000 this year. This was the 9th year of participation by the Company, which has raised over $100,000 for the American Cancer Society. This year, the Company dedicated their efforts specifically to Lanie Evans, an ALC coworker from the Richmond, VA office that passed away from brain cancer (click here to view video).
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 | Allen Lund Company Booth for Relay for Life
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About Allen Lund Company: Specializing as a national third-party transportation broker with nationwide offices and over 300 employees, the Allen Lund Company works with shippers and carriers across the nation to transport dry, refrigerated (specializing in produce), and flatbed freight; additionally, the Allen Lund Company has an international division, ALC International, which is licensed by the FMC as an OTI-NVOCC, and a logistics division, ALC Logistics.
Established in 1976, the company managed over 267,000 truckload shipments in 2010. ALC was named 2010 Top 3PL Recipient by Food Logistics. The November 9, 2009 issue of Transport Topics ranked the Allen Lund Company 12th in the nation among their list of "Top 25 Freight Brokerage Firms." The October 19, 2009 issue of the Los Angeles Business Journal ranked the Allen Lund Company 43rd on the list of "Largest Private Companies" in Los Angeles; additionally, the November 23, 2009 issue of the San Fernando ValleyBusiness Journal ranked the Allen Lund Company 19th on the list of "Fastest Growing Private Companies." More information is available at www.allenlund.com.
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About the American Cancer Society:
(ACS) is the "nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy and service."
The society is organized into thirteen geographical divisions of both medical and lay volunteers operating in more than 3,400 offices throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Its home office is located in the American Cancer Society Center in Atlanta, Georgia. As its official journal the ACS publishes Cancer.
The society was originally founded in 1913 by 15 physicians and businessmen in New York City under the name American Society for the Control of Cancer (ASCC). The current name was adopted in 1945. |
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