Approach the challenge in the right way and you will create a well-designed warehouse that gives your company wings; get it wrong and you will have an inefficient operation that will hold your business back and haunt you for years to come. As warehouses a
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Wickes Building Supplies has taken a ten-year lease – at a rent of about £7 per sq ft – on a 12,077sq m distribution warehouse on Maximate, Maxted Road, Hemel Hempstead, from the Co-Operative Insurance Society (CIS).
Third-party logistics provider Exel is helping retailer Selfridges to get its new store in Birmingham running successfully by providing in-store logistics services so that the shop floor space is dedicated to sales activities only.
The Cranfield School of Management Business is urging leaders to heed warnings that supply chains are at greater risk to massive disruption than ever before.
Food business Kerry supplies a wide range of products – poultry, milk and spring water – and also runs one of the largest fresh convenience food businesses in UK and Ireland.
Colliers CRE, acting for HM Prison Service has sold the 93,000sq m Branston distribution centre at Burton-upon-Trent to Astral Developments for £25.3M, reflecting a yield of 7.5%.
Rail freight traffic through the Daventry railport on the 365-acres DIRFT Logistics Park is reaching new records, providing encouraging news for the park’s developer, Seven Trent Property, who has been given the Government go-ahead for a major expansion
European Conveyor Systems (ECS) has installed a high-efficiency automated conveyor at the Merseyside factory of Johnson Controls, which makes interior components for Jaguar cars.
Yearsley Cold Storage and Distribution has started building its new depot in the North-east. Located at Seaham in County Durham, the depot will enhance the company’s national distribution network as well as form part of its strategy to build cold stores i
Some of the UK’s largest non-food retail transport fleets are running at barely 50% of weight capacity and return legs average 21% use. Improvements in efficiency could save the retail supply chain millions of pounds a year, according to Rick Ballard of s
