The Lakeland Limited story goes back almost 40 years when Sam Raynor’s parents set up a mail order business from their home in Windermere, selling polythene bags to local farmers for packing poultry.
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Property investment and active management specialist Ashtenne Holdings has paid £8M to buy a 51,150sq m logistics warehouse in Amersfoort, near Utrecht, in the Netherlands from Hays.
European logistics provider Christian Salvesen has won a five-year contract with Marks & Spencer (M&S) to carry out the retailer’s frozen warehousing and distribution in the UK.
Somerset-based workwear supplier Wessex Textiles is replacing its IT systems with an integrated business management and information system – Xe-ERP – from XeBusiness. The system underpins the firm’s rapid rate of growth and will handle its Customer Rela
Lynx Express has moved to a larger 2,046sq m purpose-built branch on the Gloucester Business Park in Gloucester. The express parcels company’s previous depot was in St Oswald’s Road, Gloucester.
Mountain Warehouse, the brand name clothing and equipment retailer for the outdoor leisure industry, has selected DTS Logistics to handle its distribution.
Thornton & Ross, the pharmaceuticals manufacturer based at Linthwaite Laboratories near Huddersfield, has seen storage at its warehouse increase by a third through the delivery of three Narrow Aisle Flexi lift trucks and the installation of new Dexion
Parkfield Projects has been commissioned to provide a new £6M, 4,538sq m state-of-the-art head office and distribution centre at Maidstone from KFF Food Service, which provides frozen, chilled and ambient food distribution in London and the South-east.
New deals feature heavily in an upbeat report from international express freight operator Europa Worldwide Logistics in the lead up to the busy season Christmas season.
The Sector Group manufactures watches for brands such as Benetton, Sisley and Moschino. It has also expanded into the jewellery business with the Xenia brand, acquired during 2002.
