Palletline is investing around £360,000 over three years in 39 LPG powered Linde 39XH20T forklift trucks, with 33 going to the Birmingham hub and the remainder to Greenford.
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Frontier Estates is rumoured to be close to buying the IKEA site at Grange Park, Northampton, for a sum believed to be around £600,000 per acre.
The flexibility provided by the Working Time Directive’s “Periods of Availability” is key to the way that many companies have organised their lorry operations,
ProLogis has won two industry awards. “Property Week” magazine and Germany’s “Immobilien Zeitung” named ProLogis “European Industrial/Distribution/ Logistics Developer of the Year” for 2005 at the recent Expo Real conference in Munich.
The whole of SladenAston’s 650,000 sq ft refurbishment in Doncaster is under offer to a fashion retailer.
Sweet maker Thorntons has chosen Manhattan’s warehouse management solution for open systems at its 140,000 sq ft, multi-temperature central storage facility and distribution point in Alfreton, Derbyshire,
There has been a run of freehold deals in the North-West.
The overflow of national occupiers from the Midlands, looking for available sites and workforces, means that locations such as Skelmersdale are mentioned freely and without the hint of a smirk in conversations that usually centre around Northampton.
Musgrave SuperValu-Centra has completed a 12-month scheme to re-engineer its supply chain operations with new warehouse management software, developed jointly with AquiTec, to achieve economies of scale and streamline deliveries.
Mitsubishi is changing the way it does business in the UK involving a radical switch from a distributor-based operation to one that puts dealers in direct communication with the parent company’s European base at Almere in the Netherlands.
