Developer Goodman is pushing forward with plans to resurrect the London International Freight Exchange, albeit in the guise of the Slough Intermodal Freight Exchange, following the successful application of ProLogis’ Howbury scheme a year ago.
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Standard Life Investments, landlord of Suttons Business Park in Reading, is taking a fresh approach to the marketing of the remaining available units by offering a range of incentives, with the aim of fully letting the park in 2009.
Senator International needed to make continual changes to its warehousing facilities to increase capacity. Briggs worked with Senator in planning the layout of its warehouses, including advising on racking and aisle layout to maximise pallet spaces.
Newspaper and magazine wholesaler Smiths News has invested £1m in a new distribution centre in South Wales.
Supermarket Morrisons has finally secured a South West ROC after several years’ search.
European Conveyor Systems has installed an automated conveyor system for a sat-nav company’s new distribution centre.
Royal Mail has recently implemented an Intermec data capture system to help it keep track of the hundreds of millions of Recorded Signed For, Special Delivery and Royal Mail Tracked parcels it handles each year.
The right software can make a huge difference to any logistics operation, but in order for it to work to its full potential it needs to be operated on the right hardware. LUCY TESSERAS reports on the latest developments in data capture systems.
Jessica Davies visits the toymaker’s giant distribution centre in Prague to find out how it satisfies the demands of the global market.
Stalwart of the computer chip industry, Intel Corporation UK’s European logistics strategy manager Simon Barrett, has seen some big changes. He talks to JESSICA DAVIES ahead of his appearance at Extended Supply Chain 2009.
