French sports retailer Decathlon has awarded SDI Group a contract to install two additional sorting systems, with a commitment for a third in the first half of 2010 in a contract worth £3 million.
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Faith Shoes has chosen MetaPack to manage its online delivery after finding that its manual consignment creation at the pack bench was becoming too cumbersome to manage and it wanted to improve its ability to print delivery labels.
Online retailers were still dispatching goods on Christmas Eve despite cut off dates for Christmas day having passed, according to MetaPack’s eCommerce 100 tracker.
TGW Systems Integration and Crisplant have been awarded a contract to install state-of-the-art warehouse and distribution systems in a new logistics centre for clothing retailer, Bestseller, in Haderslev, Denmark.
Electronics retailer Elgiganten has rolled out an automated pick and pack system at its central warehouse in Jönköbing, Sweden, to help it deal with its surging e-retail business.
Lancashire-based discount specialist B&M Retail has bought Rockpoint’s 618,839 sq ft The Vault facility at Liverpool International Business Park.
Corporate clothing retailer Dimensions Clothing brought in CI Logistics to install a Quodeck garment hanging, racking and shelving system at its 275,000 sq ft distribution centre
Eroski Group, Spain’s third-largest retailer, has selected the i2 transport solutions
Clipper Logistics Group has signed a contract with Urban UK to provide logistics services for US retailer Anthropologie, which opened its first European branch on Regent Street this month.
Uncertainty in forecasting retail sales volumes and a financial crisis in the freight industry is pushing up the level of risk for retailers in the run-up to Christmas, Alan Braithwaite of LCP Consulting has warned.
