Whois & Analysis for echo.com

Echo Global Logistics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ECHO) is a provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services.

It connects businesses that need to ship their products with carriers who transport goods, doing so using a proprietary, web-based technology platform that compiles and analyzes data from its network of transportation providers.

The Nasdaq Stock Market is an American stock exchange.

It is the second-largest exchange in the world by market capitalization, behind only the New York Stock Exchange.

The exchange platform is owned by Nasdaq, Inc., which also owns the Nasdaq Nordic (formerly known as OMX) and Nasdaq Baltic stock market network and several other US stock and options exchanges.

In commerce, supply chain management (SCM), the management of the flow of goods and services, involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.

Interconnected or interlinked networks, channels and node businesses combine in the provision of products and services required by end customers in a supply chain.

Supply-chain management has been defined as the "design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance globally.".

Less than truckload shipping or less than load (LTL) is the transportation of relatively small freight.

The alternatives to LTL carriers are parcel carriers or full truckload carriers.

Parcel carriers usually handle small packages and freight that can be broken down into units less than.

Full truckload carriers move freight that is loaded into a semi-trailer.

Semi trailers are typically between and require a substantial amount of freight to make such transportation economical.

Chicago (or), officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States.

With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and the Midwestern United States.

It is the county seat of Cook County.

The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S.