Aldi has announced plans to build a new regional distribution centre in Sheppey, Kent in order to support the retailer’s expansion in the South East of England.
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A fully fitted and ready to go warehouse totalling 242,715 sq ft is avialble through agents Knight Frank and M3 in Telford.
Gazeley has won planning permission for a 470,000 sq ft cross dock faciltiy at its G.Park Newark scheme adjacent to the A1 motorway.
The Transport and General Workers Union and Amicus are to merge creating the UK’s biggest trade union with about two million members.
Q8 Oils has chosen Turners of Soham for its bulk distribution. It will be using two specially-liveried MAN TGAs with dedicated drivers to deliver bulk oils around the UK.
Gazeley has acquired 16 acres at Birch Coppice in the Midlands, where it intends to develop a 380,000 sq ft speculative warehouse.
Kuehne & Nagel have taken Wrenbridge Land’s 160,000 sq ft warehouse in Hams Hall, West Midlands as a shared-user contract logistics facility.
The takeover of Safeway in March 2004 had left it with two distribution networks and the capacity to serve more than 600 stores. By summer 2005, it had disposed of about 200 stores and, as a result, had over-capacity in its distribution facilities.
There were two big happenings that affected the market in 2006: the advent of digital tachographs in May and the introduction of Euro 4 emission standards in October. Like everyone, we tried our best to anticipate what these two would do to demand.
The past year has been the most momentous in our history, says Neil Crossthwaite, managing director of Ceva Logistics – and he should know, having spent 28 years in the business.
