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High street retailer Boots has contracted Exel to store and distribute its Christmas giftware lines as part of a six-year deal worth around £40M. The operation is based at a 34,410sq m distribution centre near Worcester which Boots has lease

Nisa-Today’s new 7,440sq m distribution centre at Harlow has officially opened. Managed by Exel, the new-temperature-controlled facility will support Nisa-Today’s nationwide roll-out of its first-class, six-days-a-week delivery (Premier) service.

Companies in the handling industry using steel strap for securing product should switch to polyester strapping sooner, rather than later, to avoid problems created by the uncertain future of steel strap supply, Cyclop UK warns.

Abitibi Consolidated Group subsidiary Bridgewater Paper Mill (BPM) has replaced most of the materials handling equipment at its Ellesmere Port facility with Linde products to “consistently sustain maximum efficiency”.

CB Richard Ellis’ Industrial and Distribution team has made another letting, on behalf of AXA Real Estate Investment Managers, at the new warehouse and industrial scheme Links in Hanworth, West London.

Still Materials Handling has signed a new finance agreement with Capital Asset Finance, a subsidiary company of De Lage Landen Leasing (DLL). The new partnership enables Still to offer extremely competitive contract hire and hire purchase solutions

WHS Halo, one of the UK’s biggest PVC-U extruders for the window industry, has taken delivery of six multi-directional sideloaders from Sidetracker Engineering for its national distribution centre near Birmingham. The order is worth £300,0

Arca Systems has launched two new Euro containers. Both will work within the Euro and ISO pallet systems and two sizes of the Euro box are being produced. It is believed that one-piece Euro boxes of this size “are unique” to Arca.

TOA has awarded a major contract to Meachers Group Holdings which sees the logistics company providing an entire supply chain network, including warehousing, inventory control, transport and freight forwarding, to the Japanese-based internat