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Ocado bounced back from the fire in its Andover fulfilment centre, posting near 10% growth across its retail and solutions divisions, signing new customers in Australia and Japan and completing the range review ahead of its shift from Waitrose to Marks & Spencer in September. Ocado saw a 9.9% increase in turnover to £1.75bn for…
Lidl has bought land next to its existing warehouse in Bridgend, as it looks to expand its distribution centre in south Wales to over 387,500 sq ft. Simon Hedderman, regional director at Lidl GB, said: “We first opened our warehouse here in Bridgend in 2004, servicing Lidl stores across Wales. In this time we have…
XPO Logistics chief executive Bradley Jacobs has said his focus is on “maximising shareholder value” after a 2019 that saw revenue fall 3.5%. Worldwide revenue at the 3PL fell from $17.2bn (£13.2bn) to $16.6bn (£12.8bn), while operating income rose 16.6% to $821m from $704m. Revenue in its European division fell 2.1% from $3.7bn to $3.62bn,…
Albion Land has forward sold the first phase of its Axis J9 scheme in Bicester for more than £24 million to Aver Property Partnership, a joint venture between ERGO Real Estate and NFU Mutual. The first phase is currently under construction and will provide up to 200,000 sq ft of mid box warehouses ranging in…
Geek+ is providing robotics solutions for Nike’s new distribution centre in Chiba, Japan. Geek+ is deploying more than 200 robots in the facility, from its goods-to-person P series line. The robots carry packages and other items directly to workers in the facility. Warehouses globally are still mainly manually operated, however, a need for automation and…
I think it’s time the logistics sector acknowledged it has a gender problem… Always looking ahead, in the second quarter of this year I’ll start working on the Logistics Manager Top 50 – looking at not just the largest, but fastest growing third-party logistics providers in the UK. It’s an involved task, benchmarking turnover and…
Logistics Manager understands that Amazon is to be the tenant behind plans for a 2.3 million sq ft mega shed being put forward at Tritax’s 119-acre Littlebrook scheme on the former power station site in Dartford. Plans are being promoted by Bericote – the fund’s development partner at Littlebrook – to Dartford Council for the…
Developer investor Gazeley has pushed the button to speculatively develop a 300,000 sq ft plus warehouse in Milton Keynes. The development on a 21 acre site which had been optioned by Gazeley when it extended its Magna Park Milton Keynes scheme a few years ago, will total 312,700 sq ft and is known as Magnitude…
The joint venture between Harworth and the Lancashire County Pension Fund has completed their third letting in six weeks at the Multiply development at Logistics North in Bolton. The latest deal sees the letting a unit of 24,636 sq ft to the Incontinence Shop, the largest stockist of incontinence products in the North West. The…
Amazon is opening a 78,000 sq ft delivery station just north of Carlisle, Cumbria. It has taken Border Group’s Woodlands Industrial Storage Estate just off Brampton Road in Longtown. The online retail giant said the new delivery station in Carlisle would open this spring and that it will work with eight independent delivery companies from…
The Rhenus Group has moved into the aeronautics market after buying Spanish logistics specialist LTK. LTK, headquartered in Madrid, has locations across Spain and specialises in providing logistics for the aerospace and automotive industries. Customers include the Airbus Group and Alestis Aerospace. LTK handles supply chain management, procurement, and quality checking, as well as industrial,…
Walker Logistics has hired Neil Couling to the position of financial controller. He will be directly responsible for overseeing Walker’s accounting and management operations. Of his appointment, Couling said: “Walker Logistics is a highly successful and growing player in the supply chain management and fulfilment sector and I am looking forward to contributing towards the company’s…
Xpediator said it “performed strongly” in 2019, after posting a pre-tax profit of £5 million and £33 million increase in turnover. In July 2019 the company had warned that pre-tax profit would be “materially below market expectations” as it reconfigured usage in its Brain tree depot from storage to fulfilment; saw labour rate increases and…
The grocery market grew 0.3% in the 12-weeks ending 26 January driven by Dry January and Veganuary promotions, according to Kantar WorldPanel. Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said: “[People] who committed to drinking less in January helped the retailers boost sales of non-alcoholic beer by 37% and adult soft drinks…
DTZ Investors has sold a single let 96,000 sq ft warehouse on Eldon Way in Crick, Northampton. The property has been let to ZF Services at a rent of £495,000 per annum with a lease expiring in May 2020. The sale was initiated in October 2019 and is in line with the fund’s objectives of…
Online contact lenses supplier VisionDirect has said it is now able to cut some of its prices by up to 45% following a migration from paper-based manual sortation to a cloud-based WMS. VisionDirect opted for a WMS from SnapFulfil to manage distribution at three sites (one in the UK, Netherlands and Spain respectively) handling some 10,000 same-day customer…
Gnewt Cargo co-founder Sam Clarke has revealed on LinkedIn he is to leave the all-electric fleet courier in the Spring. Clarke posted on the social media platform: “I can now announce officially, that earlier this year I tendered my resignation from Gnewt and shall be leaving in the Spring. Thanks to all Gnewt by Menzies…
DSV Panalpina has warned that it will be “difficult to predict the market situation in 2020” as DSV felt the benefits of the acquisition of Panalpina in the second half of 2019. For 2019 DSV Panalpina reported an 19.8% increase in turnover from DKK79bn to DKK94.7bn (£10.7bn). DSV completed the takeover of Panalpina in August…
Combilift’s innovative handling solutions ensure optimum use of your space, cost effective operation and enhanced safety. Combilift’s award winning products include multidirectional forklifts, a growing range of pedestrian operated stackers, the Aisle Master articulated narrow aisle forklifts and straddle carriers and mobile gantries for extreme loads. Safe, space saving and productive operation is a hallmark…
Over 130 exhibitors are now confirmed for IntraLogisteX, the only intralogistics exhibition to take place in the UK this year. Among the exhibitors are BS Handling Sytems; Exporta; Element Logic; Geek +; Honeywell Intelligrated; Interroll; Knapp; Linde; OrderWise; 6 River Systems; SnapFulfil and VoxWare among many, many others. There will be live demonstrations of the…
Rico Logistics is using ‘cobotic’ technology from Flexi Narrow Aisle to optimise storage capacity in its warehouse facility in Birmingham. The site now comprises of 11,000 pallet locations and at its highest point – the apex of the building’s roof structure – the new racking scheme delivers a 14 metre high top rack beam. Flexi,…
The coronavirus has been labeled as “major disruptive event with global implications for supply chains” as a leading industry expert has called on businesses to review their exposure. Richard Wilding OBE, professor of supply chain strategy at Cranfield School of Management, said: “ Air freight is already down 50% and we are seeing a backlog…
Last year saw the worst drop in air cargo volumes for ten years, falling 3.3% in freight tonne kms year-on-year, according to the latest figures from IATA. Capacity, measured in available freight tonne kms, rose 2.1% in 2019, but the year was marked by the first annual fall in freight volumes since 2012. For December…
Following its acquisition of the Sony’s UK distribution site in Enfield in November last year, investor developer Goodman UK has just launched the 180,000 sq ft plus warehouse in London. The property – rebuilt in 2012 after rioters destroyed the original warehouse in 2011, – is located on Innova Park in Enfield and totals 187,466…
Civil engineering company Buckingham Group has secured a contract thought to be valued around £140 million to deliver SEGRO’s Gateway South, Coventry development in the West Midlands. The new contract is for the second phase of the major ‘Coventry Gateway’ scheme, where Buckingham Group is already the contractor for the Whitley South infrastructure that includes…
St Modwen has said it will be delivering between 1.5 and 1.7 million sq ft of new space to the market. According to its latest end of year report this is almost double the amount delivered in 2018. Of the 1.7 million sq ft expected to come forward, some 1.5 million sq ft is already…
Parcel specialist 3PL DX Group said it has been “encouraged” by trading in the first half of its financial year, with performance driven by its DX Freight division. In September 2019 the company said it had returned to profitability for the financial year-ending 30 June 2019 with a 7.7% increase in turnover to £322.5 million,…
Vans are to be included in the government’s plans to end to the sale of new petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles – including hybrids – to 2035. The Department for Transport also said that the ban could happen earlier if a faster transition is feasible, subject to consultation. It also said that it would work with…
The British Retail Consortium has issued voluntary guidance to fashion retailers as to how to source fully vegan materials throughout their supply chains. The BRC advised retailers that before classing a product as vegan they need to not only rule out using leather and wool, but also many glues, dyes, and traces of use in…
Apparently, at some point today, the prime minister will give a speech where he will bring forward the ban for selling new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars in the UK from 2040 to 2035. I’ve got three issues with this… I really hate the trend in politics where the ‘news’ that a speech will happen…
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