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Bibby Distribution has teamed up with Fairbridge, a national charity supporting disadvantaged young people, to offer a group in north Manchester a hand up the career ladder.

Thorntons reported a cost saving of £100,000 in the
first year of installing a warehouse management
system from Manhattan Associates at its 140,000 sq
ft warehouse in Alfreton, Derbyshire.

Plastic laminates supplier Payne Worldwide has increased stockholding with 100 per cent selectivity and reduced product damage with a tailored system from The Storage Equipment Centre.

SSI Schaefer has completed a 40-metre tall, rack-supported high bay warehouse production, storage and distribution facility in Fredericia, Denmark, for brewing giant Carlsberg. The centre has 76,000 pallet storage positions, an integrated pallet conveyor

MG sports cars are once again in production at Longbridge in Birmingham, and to increase the pick rate of small components in the company’s logistics centre, MG has chosen Linpac Storage Systems to design and install a new range of dynamic carton live she

Electrical retailer Maplin recently moved to a 200,000 sq ft distribution centre atManvers, close to Rotherham.

Estonia plans to turn hundreds of hectares land in Ida-Virumaa into an industrial park.

Some 800,000 professional drivers will be affected by the European Union-wide Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) directive, which comes into force for lorry drivers from 10th September. Although aimed at raising the skills of professional driver

It’s a tough time for all businesses, but none more so than the forklift truck market, with the British Industrial Truck Association’s predictions in May that the industry can expect an “extended and significant downturn” during 2009. Based on its members