Allsports has confirmed more than 1,300 job losses and the closure of 92 stores.
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Northern Foods, Britain’s biggest supplier of ready meals, has announced that it expects the impact of rising energy costs to be passed on to consumers.
Tony Hall, is the new sales director for Still UK. Formerly sales director for Rack-N-Stak, Still’s North-west distributor, Hall became Northern regional sales director for Still when it bought the Rack-N-Stak company in 2004.
Warehouse logistics company Witron has unveiled its new automated logistic system. The Ergonomic–Dynamic Picking System (E-DPS) which can pick one thousand order lines per module, per hour.
Young managers are the fuel that keeps UK PLC running, says The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK (CILT UK). It warns that the industry could be facing a worse crisis than the rising petrol prices if it does not engage young people
John Hancock head of MFI, Britain’s biggest furniture store chain has stepped down following an unsettled appointment. MFI insists that Hancock’s departure has nothing to do with the supply chain problems that the company faced.
Industry rivals Boots and Alliance UniChem are expected to announce a merger deal today worth £7.5Bn. The deal will be the largest retail merger since Morrisons bought out Safeway for £3Bn in March 2004.
Outsourcing the shipping function is attractive, but what about the legal position for import/export declarations?
Pallet pooling services could be the way forward in reducing costs for the future of pallet-based distribution, according to the Faber Halbertsma Group.
Globalisation is a factor which is continuing to affect the location of industrial facilities in Yorkshire and the North-east.
