Author: Christopher Walton

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is to open a second distribution hub in the West Midlands as additional space to its main hub in Atherstone, north Warwickshire

Asda is to open three new home shopping centres, and expand its click and collect operation as part of a five year plan to expand its online retail business

Today, 10th September, is the deadline for drivers to complete the first round of Driver CPC training. Drivers with “acquired rights” who have not completed their training now face fines of up to £1,000

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is to build a 323,000 sq ft logistics and technology centre at Bognor Regis to consolidate a number of current logistics functions and allow for future expansion

Debbie Lentz has been named senior vice president, chief supply chain officer, at Toys’R’Us

Job prospects in the transport sector are at their highest level for eighteen months, according to the latest survey by Manpower. And it highlighted the fact that drivers taking time out to do their Driver CPCs had left companies short of staff

Paul Mohan has joined iForce as chief operating officer reporting to CEO Brian Gaunt

Companies have until 30th September to enter the Fork Lift Truck Association Awards

A dispute has broken out between suppliers of plastic and wooden pallets after the GMB trade union claimed that one of its members at Amazon had fallen ill as a result of insect contamination in wooden packaging for imported goods

The Food Storage and Distribution Federation has vowed to work with the government to drive out criminality at all level in the food supply chain, following publication of the Elliott report