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Dematic has won a multi-million euro contract to supply automated collation and sequencing to Norwegian alcoholic beverage logistics company Vectura. The system will be an extension to the company’s automated pallet warehouse in Gjelleråsen, Norway, and will enable the business to process up to 75 pallets per hour and sequence up to 400 pallets at…
Arrow XL has signed a three-year deal with Aldi for two-man home delivery of oversized items including garden furniture, spa pools and DIY items. The deal was announced on the same day as AO signed a three-year deal with the supermarket chain for home delivery of its Specialbuys range. ArrowXL expects to handle in excess…
Xpediator has launched BuzzBrand, a suite of eCommerce support services for new and established business. BuzzBrand, it says, has been created to “nurture and support the growth of eCommerce brands”. It provides services from marketing plans to advice on branding of new products as well as logistics services to “facilitate and improve the order fulfilment…
Hendrik Venter has been appointed as chief executive at DHL Supply Chain for Mainland Europe, Middle East and Africa, with effect from 1 October. Venter succeeds Oscar de Bok as member of the Board of Management at Deutsche Post DHL Group in October. “Customer centricity, a first-class service portfolio and happy employees in a motivating…
Just weeks after warning on profits; parting ways with former chief executive Alex Laffey and receiving buy-out interest from asset management DBAY, Eddie Stobart Logistics said it expected to make a profit of £10 million to £11 million on turnover of £450 million in the first half of the year. The road transport operator said…
Online electricals retailer AO has signed a three-year deal with supermarket Aldi for home delivery of its Specialbuys range. Aldi’s Specialbuys are already available to purchase online, but the three-year partnership will see AO provide its services for larger products such as barbecues, patio furniture and sports equipment that will require two-person home delivery. AO…
What to look for in a visibility provider that will allow your organisation to optimise operations and reduce costs. Real-time transportation visibility is now a core pillar of today’s supply chain, and it’s critical to select the vendor that can best respond to your needs. To learn how to simplify the vendor selection process and…
DHL Freight has opened its 678,216 sq ft freight hub in the Airport Business Park in Langenhagen, near Hanover, Germany. Freight for both its Europe-wide all-in-one groupage service Euroconnect and DHL Freight’s Eurapid premium day-definite groupage service will be handled at the trans-shipment terminal which has 86 loading bays and employs 290 people. “The opening…
Brexit food shortages – as suggested by the Yellowhammer report – could be the best possible lesson for the British food supply chain on what’s to come, writes Professor Leon Terry and Richard Wilding OBE at Cranfield University – exclusively for Logistics Manager. “The two sides of the political divide, inevitably, have made the issue…
The Port of Tyne has handled 45 tonnes of coffee beans in the first three weeks of its partnership with north-east of England coffee firm Ringtons. It is the first time the Port of Tyne has handled coffee and has taken international road miles out of the supply chain for Ringtons. Previously coffee was stored…
Adelante SCM and BluJay Solutions, in partnership with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), conducted an online survey of supply chain and logistics professionals to find answers to these and other pressing questions. The report, “Focus on Customer Experience – Research on Supply Chain Priorities and Investments,” explores the key findings of this…
Warehouse space in London is set to see the highest amount of rent growth in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to the latest analysis from Savills. The property advisor is suggesting rent rises of 1.1 per cent in 2020 because ‘London industrials have a vacancy rate of just 2.4 per cent’. Kevin Mofid,…
Gate Ventures which provides food transport and logistics solutions for the education, healthcare and public sectors, is to rename its GV Food Transport business Platebox. The rebrand will, Gate Ventures said, help develop and grow its Foodmove business which supplies food logistics for wholesalers, caterers and retailers. Gate Ventures chief executive Tevin Tobun said: “Since…
The Freight Transport Association said that the release of the Operation: Yellowhammer document showed that there was “still much that could go wrong” as the country prepares to leave the European Union on 31 October. Yellowhammer is the codename used by the UK Treasury for cross-government planning in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Its…
John Lewis Partnership said it would not be continuing its relationship with Today Development Partners (TDP), which was to explore opportunities around automated online fulfilment. In May Waitrose & Partners said it had signed a deal with TDP to develop three new Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs) with “state-of-the-art technology”. In its interim results John Lewis…
Saints Transport, based at Parr’s Yard, Heathrow, has seen its rent for the 2.2 acre open storage site rise 68 per cent. The renegotiated deal sees the occupier take a new 15 year lease on the site at a headline rent of £500,000 a year equating to £5.05 per sq ft with a ten year…
JD Sports has selected XPO Logistics to optimise the UK supply chain for its GO Outdoors brand, integrating the distribution stock with other brands including Blacks, Millets and Ultimate Outdoors. To facilitate this XPO has set up a 353,000 sq ft distribution hub for JD Sports in Middlewich, Cheshire, consolidating existing warehouse operations in Rochdale,…
A leading sandwich and chilled meal manufacturer and supplier, Greencore is understood to have taken space at M&G and Hodgetts Estates’s Core 42 scheme in Tamworth. The company has taken the 160,000 sq ft speculatively developed Tamworth CLX facility, which reached practical completion in January this year. The facility, which sits on a 10-acre site,…
Kingsbridge Estates is bringing forward two developments totalling 150,000 sq ft along the M27 corridor in Hampshire. It has bought a 4-acre site at Concorde Way Segensworth where it intends to build a ten unit scheme of units from 2,971 to 20,000 sq ft. Work is due to begin in September with completion in April…
Network Space is speculatively developing a 23,000 sq ft warehouse on a 1.75-acre brownfield site in Liverpool. The development being brought forward by Caddick Construction will be known as Central 23 and is aimed at urban logistics. Catherine Chilvers of Network Space Developments, said: “Provision of industrial warehouse space of this size and quality this…
Coventry-based automotive supplier Park Sheet Metals has taken space at Bermuda park, Nuneaton as its main distribution centre. The company has taken a 34,869 sq ft unit on Harrington Way, Bermuda Park, from landlord Warmflame Developments. A ten year deal was secured at an undisclosed rent. The deal took four weeks to achieve. Joint letting…
Hermes has completed the construction of a third sortation tier at its fully automated Midlands Super Hub in Rugby. The £16m project increases its existing output by 40% with the capability to process 1.35 million parcels each day. The installation of the high specification sortation tier, manufactured by Beumer, took place over the past 12…
Nottingham-based freight forwarder Baxter Freight is to create 50 new jobs as part of an expansion plan that is targeting a 66 per cent increase in turnover in the next two years. Baxter Freight already employs 70 people and is targeting turnover of £30 million by 2021, up from its current level of £18 million….
DW Fitness First is working with click and collect technology specialist Doddle on an e-commerce offering that sees customers order sports kit online and have it delivered to the gym the next day. ‘Kit & Collect’ lockers are currently being trialled by DW Fitness First at three of its London locations (Cottons Centre, Fenchurch Street…
IMHX 2019 is the UK’s largest logistics event, returning this month to the NEC from 24 – 27 September, where you can explore the developments in automation and robotics technology that are reshaping the way orders are picked, packed and dispatched across modern supply chains. The message for the logistics industry, which historically has relied…
The £15.023 million sale of a 102,5000 sq ft warehouse let to inflight catering company Alpha LSG, is forward funding the speculative development of a new 138,375 sq ft warehouse and logistics building. Stoford is now speculatively building Icon 138, a self-contained facility. It is scheduled for completion in June 2020. It will comprise a…
Pan-European real estate investor Europa Capital has bought a prime logistics warehouse near Eindhoven Airport from a private seller. This is the investor’s third logistics acquisition in the Netherlands in the last 12 months and follows the acquisition of a 21,054 sq m (226,623 sq ft) logistics facility in Tilburg and a 49,658 sq m…
Six in 10 supply chain professionals believe that customer experience is more important than price when it comes to the purchase of new technologies. According to a survey conducted by software and services firm BlueJay Solutions 61 per cent of supply chain professionals agreed or strongly agreed that customer experience will overtake price and product…
DHL Supply Chain has broken ground on its new 215,000 sq ft warehouse at Snelshall, Milton Keynes. The new multi-user facility will support a number of specialist contracts including the end-to-end supply chain management of uniforms for a number of UK police forces. The new warehouse will feature several energy-saving measures: high levels of natural…
Hermes has selected Caljan Rite-Hite as preferred support contractor for conveyor systems located across its nationwide network of depots. The contract follows what Hermes described as a rigorous tender exercise, with incumbent Caljan chosen to supply national service support. The maintenance contract covers approximately 36 mobile loaders, six fixed booms as well as various third-party…
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