South 62, a major warehouse and distribution facility at Warrington vacated by Matalan, is undergoing substantial refurbishment, says property consultant King Sturge.
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John Menzies plc subsidiary Menzies Distribution, which distributes magazines and newspapers daily to 21,500 customers daily, is taking a new distribution centre in York.
We reveal the latest companies to join the hallowed ranks of the winners of The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards.
By Sam Tulip and Nick Allen
According to GVA Grimley the Midlands industrial / distribution market is seeing continued growth, with units of 18,600sq m plus being built. This activity is pushing another wave of speculative development.
Writing in the October issue of Logistics Europe, regular columnist Peter Bartram quoted a leading international economist as saying that the days of $25 a barrel oil were probably gone forever. Perhaps that’s right. So, what does this mean for commercial
Chris Webster described the selection of this year’s
Overall Winner as ‘the toughest I’ve seen during
Capgemini’s years of involvement in the Awards’, a
sentiment echoed by the other judges.
Boots is to reveal the results of a year-long project to revolutionise its shelf filling processes. The project is expected to save the company £80M in efficiency savings.
Recruiting, retaining and motivating staff is a long-standing problem for logistics operations, made more acute, in the UK at least, by the current relatively high levels of employment. What makes a company good to work for?
As usual, a very disparate set of entries in this category makes comparisons invidious. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) entered specifically to gain recognition for the efforts of their team co-ordinating the initial
Fortec Pallet Distribution Network is using a new sliding scale pricing scheme for larger consignments of palletised freight sent through its network of nearly 60 depots.
