The Department for Transport’s Online Benchmarking pilot which went live in August, has been expanded to include six additional KPIs to the two that currently exist.
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DHL has launched DHL Tyrebox for Europe, a patented solution for transporting tyres to the market. The system enables tyres to be stacked together and delivered flat-packed.
Synthomer, the synthetic polymers business, has chosen DHL Exel Supply Chain to handle its bulk transport operations in the UK from January.
Home Delivery Network has won a contract with fashion retailer River Island.
Norbert Dentressangle says it expects that full-year performance will be hampered by the deterioration in the business environment in the final quarter of 2008.
Marks & Spencer is responding to the downturn in the retail market with plans to manage its supply chain more tightly.
TNT chose Ergo Floor Systems to supply it with 900 sq m of Standline interlocking PVC floor tiles at the group distribution centre of its fashion division in Leicester. TNT Fashion needed a way of blocking the excessive noise caused by pallet pump trucks
Food packaging manufacturer Scholle Europe has taken REIT Asset Management’s 40,517 sq ft warehouse at the Follingsby Park warehousing development in Gateshead.
It is axiomatic that when times are good, companies tend to focus on marketing and product development. It is when the going gets tough that the focus moves towards the supply chain and the potential savings that more efficient logistics can give.
Developer SEGRO reckons that the government’s decision to require business rates to be paid in full on empty industrial buildings will cost it £8 million this year.
