Iceland has abandoned using cardboard cartons in its fresh food supply chain, preferring to use plastic crates instead. The company has awarded a five-year deal to Hays Logistics to manage the new initiative which is expected to result in reduced
Browsing: Archive
Phase I of Knowle Village Business Park at Fareham is now complete and already has its first occupant.
Shell contractors Hoyer UK and JW Suckling Transport have taken delivery of more than 70 new Heil articulated trailers for use on the oil company’s contract. Manufactured to ADR specifications, the equipment includes
Like many other retailers, SPAR faced a number of challenges in the late 1990s including ever-increasing SKUs, rising labour costs and a lack of available land to build on. SPAR’s marketing operation wanted the stores to carry a greater range of products
Davis Derby has added two products to its successful TruckLOG range which provide significant benefits in cost savings and safety. They are the Forward Reverse Speed Interlock (FRSI) and Speed Zoning.
Suzuki GB, advised by FPDSavills, has bought a 10.27-acre site in Milton Keynes from national regeneration agency English Partnerships.
Companies can monitor their mobile workforce every hour, even when not logged on, through a new scheduled polling option available from FleetOnline.net. The low cost system locates any GSM mobile phone and displays the location on a secure website,
High street retailer Boots is using a new transit packaging system designed by Arca Systems which could “revolutionise” the way goods are carried from the warehouse to stores.
Iceland, part of the Big Food Group, is a high street supermarket chain with 760 stores across the UK and Ireland. In Iceland’s 2003 annual report, it set out two strategic objectives – to develop organisation processes and people that enable efficiency
On a new dedicated distribution park in northern France, construction is underway on a 23,700sq m (255,107sq ft) logistics centre. Nothing particularly unusual in that, but this building is the first in mainland Europe to be built using Gazeley’s
