Wincanton has won a 10 year contract to manage the warehousing and primary transport for part of Carlsberg UK’s distributed range.
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Sales at Kuehne + Nagel grew 15.7 per cent to £6.5bn (CHF 15.4bn) for the first nine months of the year while operating profit (EBITDA) rose 16 per cent to £297m (CHF 709m).
Home Delivery Network has won a major contract with John Lewis. The agreement will entail handling more than one million parcels each year, making it John Lewis’ main parcel carrier.
Britvic has awarded KN Drinks Logistics a ten-year contract to carry out secondary distribution along with vending machine replenishment. KN will handle deliveries to pubs, bars and food service outlets across the country.
Next-day delivery specialist City Link has chosen Liquid Management Solutions (LMS) to develop its 11 driver trainers in safe and fuel efficient driving techniques.
IDS Logistics, formerly PB Logistics, is opening a 390,000 sq ft distribution centre in Sheffield, bringing its total retail footprint to nearly 2.4 million sq ft.
Transmec is investing more than £10 million to increase the capacity of its Redditch warehouse from 8,000 sq m to 14,000 sq m.
The £2.4bn UK online grocery market will more than double over the next five years, according to the Institute of Grocery Distribution.
Geodis UK is to take on 90 per cent of outdoor clothing manufacturer Regatta’s continental pallet distribution.
The world’s first British standard for business continuity management, BS 25999, has been drawn up by BSI Management Systems.
