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).
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Research from Xchanging Procurement Services reveals that e-procurement technology addresses only 10% of the cost savings challenge.
The sixth generation of Cirrus Logistics’ warehouse design and simulation tool, CLASS, is now available. CLASS is already used in 200-plus locations worldwide by customers that include eight out of the ten leading third-party logistics providers as well
A totally new series of LP gas and diesel counterbalance trucks in 1.5 to 3.5 tonne capacity range is to be unveiled soon by Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks, says UK distributor Hamech Mitsubishi.
Equiton Industrial Partnership (EIP), the Limited Partnership joint venture between Brixton, the Equitable Life Assurance Society and Edger Investments (a wholly owned subsidiary of Prudential Assurance Company), has sold Units 9-13 Hambridge Lane, Newbur
Kingfisher’s DIY retailing arm, B&Q, is expecting its new £65M, 74,400sq m semi-automated distribution centre at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, to open in late 2005.
It has only taken 25 years but Blackburn-based Dutton Carpets has solved the problems that carpet manufacturing – dust and fibre constantly swirl in the air – causes forklift trucks. The company has introduced a fleet of 15 gas-powered Tri-Cat engine tr
Ilapak says its new series PC-controlled Vegatronic 2000 vertical, form, fill and seal packaging machine offers manufacturers greater packaging flexibility and improved sealing quality as well as a new, more robust, modular construction.
Slough Estates has announced the first wave of lettings at its newly re-branded West London portfolio, ‘theLHR.com’. Six lettings have been completed totalling 2,511sq m of warehousing/manufacturing space.
Employer confidence in the transport and communications sector is positive for the first three months if the New Year, according to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released today.
