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Woolworths processes some 6.5 million customer transactions a week and runs five main distribution centres based at Swindon, Rugby, Bedford and two operations at Castleton near Rochdale.

The key issue for project management today is building as quickly as possible isn’t it?” What makes a development successful?

In consultation with the freight logistics industry, Skills for Logistics has developed a new vocational qualification in an effort to dispel the erroneous ‘white van man’ tag that can tarnish small businesses.

In little over three months the logistics landscape has changed dramatically. Major players in the market have been taken over or are up for sale as the industry realigns itself to reflect the changes in the global economy.

This year Palletways is helping to drive out male cancer by raising funds and awareness for the Institute of Cancer Research ‘Everyman’ scheme.

To accommodate this variety of fast and slow-moving lines, a range of storage and order picking methods were co-ordinated by Knapp to form the integrated handling system at the facility.

The networks have achieved growth in two main ways. The first is bringing in new members which have pallet traffic that can go through the network; the second is organic growth in the market.