Manufacturer may be linked to retailer customers via EDI, with methods of communication well-honed over time. A much greater number of increasingly computer-literate customers want to deal direct with the supplier.
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ProLogis has acquired a 48,632sq m facility at the Orebrö Distribution Center in the greater Stockholm area in Sweden.
In a major move that will prove pivotal in the continuing development of Comet’s supply chain strategy, the electrical retailer is opening a new distribution centre in Skelmersdale. At 42,780sq m the new site will be the largest Comet building
Just two years ago washroom and cleaning consumables distributor Cannon Disposables barely recognised it was in the logistics business. In the minds of most of its staff it merely supplied goods like toilet rolls, hand towels and floor cleaners to the nat
Delivery and collection business Target Worldwide Express is leasing a 2,794sq m unit on the Kites Croft industrial park at Southampton. Target is moving its parcels distribution business from premises in Winchester to the new facility.
Boots the Chemist is moving towards supplying products straight to shelf, says its director of logistics, Peter Scriven. He says the high street retailer has already been trialling the scheme in three stores, although the proposed scheme is very much
Food business Kerry supplies a wide range of products – poultry, milk and spring water – and also runs one of the largest fresh convenience food businesses in UK and Ireland.
Colliers CRE, acting for HM Prison Service has sold the 93,000sq m Branston distribution centre at Burton-upon-Trent to Astral Developments for £25.3M, reflecting a yield of 7.5%.
Rail freight traffic through the Daventry railport on the 365-acres DIRFT Logistics Park is reaching new records, providing encouraging news for the park’s developer, Seven Trent Property, who has been given the Government go-ahead for a major expansion
European Conveyor Systems (ECS) has installed a high-efficiency automated conveyor at the Merseyside factory of Johnson Controls, which makes interior components for Jaguar cars.
