courier founded eastern canada 1960 headquarters mississauga ontario canada key people patrick nangle president and chief executive officer products parcel delivery revenue ca 1.5 billion 2008 number of employees 12 500 website http www.purolator.com purolator inc. is a canadian courier that is 91 % owned by canada post corporation 1 7 % owned by barry lapointe holdings ltd. and 2 % by others . purolator truck showing the hazmat class 5 oxidizing agents and organic peroxides placard on the rear door . the company was originally organized as trans canada couriers ltd. in 1967 it was acquired by the us manufacturer of oil and air filters purolator of fayetteville north carolina founded as motor improvements incorporated in 1923 2 the name was originally an abbreviated form of pure oil later . 3 in 1987 the company returned to canadian ownership . although it retained the purolator name it has since had no connection with the oil filter business . purolator has partnered with fedex for deliveries outside of canada . cargojet airways operates boeing 727 boeing 757 and boeing 767 aircraft for purolator . since 2003 purolator has organized an annual food drive in association with the canadian football league . every season fans in each city are invited to bring non perishable food items to a selected home game and purolator collects and donates the food to local food banks . also for every quarterback sack in the cfl purolator donates the quarterback s weight in food to the food bank in the city where the game was held . on april 28 2008 teamsters canada the official union of purolator truck drivers package handlers couriers and other workers gave employees a 72 hour strike warning clarification needed . a tentative agreement from one month prior was rejected by 51 % of purolator union members . purolator and its union met with a federally appointed mediator and reached a 2nd tentative agreement on april 30 around 24 hours before the strike deadline . 4 unicell quicksider edit a purolator hybrid electric vehicle on september 24 2007 purolator inc. introduced the unicell quicksider a prototype full electric vehicle lightweight urban delivery vehicle developed by a consortium led by toronto based unicell limited 5 in partnership with arvinmeritor battery engineering and test services inc. ; bodycote material testing ; electrovaya inc. ; pmg technologies inc. ; purolator courier ltd. ; southwestern energy ; and the transportation development centre of transport canada . 6 7 references edit purolator facts . purolator.com . 2010 04 14 . retrieved 2011 01 15 . purolator history . purolator.com . 1960 12 05 . retrieved 2010 11 27 . purolator auto filters history . purolatorautofilters.net . retrieved 2010 11 27 . business purolator union reach deal . thestar.com . 2008 05 02 . retrieved 2010 11 27 . unicell . unicell . retrieved 2010 11 27 . purolator introduces prototype battery electric delivery vehicle . green car congress . 2007 09 24 . retrieved 2010 11 27 . purolator quicksider electric delivery vehicle displayed in toronto . treehugger . retrieved 2010 11 27 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to purolator . official website purolator freight website purolator e ship web services ews http www.theglobeandmail.com globe investor purolator shakeup sparks talk of closer ties with fedex article566263 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title purolator inc. & oldid 737150853 categories canada postexpress mailcompanies established in 1960battery electric vehicleshidden categories wikipedia articles needing clarification from december 2009commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 1 september 2016 at 01 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view