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Viking Transport has snapped up a warehouse in Derby from Two Sisters Food Group. The haulage company has signed a three-year lease for the 13,195 sq ft building at 14-16 Cotton Brook Road on the Sir Francis Ley Industrial Park. Harris Lamb was instructed by the Two Sisters Food Group to secure a new tenant…
Lidl has opened its 800th store and said it will spend £1.3 billion in store expansion over 2021 and 2022. The grocery store has opened 50 new stores over the past 12 months and has today opened stores in four new locations in Cambridge, London, Boston, and Dumbarton. Lidl GB chief executive officer Christian Härtnagel…
In a year when sustainability is the buzzword for supply chains it was prophetic that Sky were the Overall Winner at the Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2019. As winners of The Ethical Supply Chain Award Sky demonstrated it was a business that had ethical, social and environmental awareness fused into the very fabric of its…
AP Moller – Maersk has more than doubled its warehousing and distribution activities in North America with the acquisition of Performance Team for $545 million (£422.6 million). Performance Team specialises in B2B and B2C distribution for retail, wholesale and e-commerce and has 24 warehousing sites across the US, including west coast and east coast activities…
The government’s new post-Brexit immigration policy has been labelled as “detrimental” to the logistics sector by the Freight Transport Association. From 1 January 2021, freedom of movement for European Union citizens in the UK will end. A points-based immigration system will grant immigration status based on an appropriate job offer, English language skills, and a…
DHL Supply Chain will run volumes for Inspired Pet Nutrition through its shared user network after winning a competitive tender. The contract will be delivered through the DHL Consumer Network, its national network of shared user warehouse and transport services to FMCG companies. DHL were originally appointed in 2019, and this new contract will build…
The line-up of logistics leaders at the Supply Chain Conference 2020 – which takes place in London on 17 and 18 March – makes it the must-attend event for supply chain professionals, featuring industry-leading best-practice from award-winning businesses. The Supply Chain Conference 2020 begins with Day One on Tuesday 17 March at Monument, 8 Eastcheap,…
Work has started on the construction of Didcot Quarter, the largest industrial development in south Oxfordshire for over 20 years, with the development of two major speculative industrial units that will provide a total of 310,000 sq of warehouse space. Marketed by VSL and Savills on behalf of Diageo Pension Trust, construction is underway on…
Amazon has secured planning permission for a new 99,000 sq ft delivery depot in Deeside. Similar to its Carlisle depot the new delivery station is expected to open this Spring. The facility – through the online retail giant’s logistics arm – will work with more than a dozen independent delivery companies from the site to…
Asda parent Walmart said that the supermarket saw a sales decline of 1.3% during the fourth quarter of 2019. Walmart said that its consumer spending remained subdued in a challenging environment in the UK, citing research from Kantar that sales for online grocery continued to outpace the market. The supermarket giant also said that gross…
Pall-Ex (UK) subsidiary Cranleigh Distribution Services has acquired the goodwill of the UK pallet operation from Cranleigh Freight Services. This is the first acquisition by Pall-Ex since the sale of the group to its membership and senior management team was been finalised in November 2019, with 70%t of the network’s members becoming shareholders. Cranleigh Freight…
Early adopters of ‘smart supply chain’ technologies – which provides data on customer demand, inventory levels and potential risk – have seen cost reductions of 10% to 15%. PA Consulting surveyed over 100 cross-sector global supply chain leaders and found that 69% believe that their supply chain approach is not innovative enough, while 79% believed…
In the fast-paced world of business, the focus is often on growing the organisation. Yet protecting the business, its people and its assets should not be forgotten, after all health and safety can offer a huge range of benefits. In this case study NEBOSH, a leading provider of health, safety and environmental qualifications, hears how…
Apple has warned that worldwide supply of its iPhone will be “temporarily constrained” as the coronavirus impacts its supply chain. Apple said: “While our iPhone manufacturing partner sites are located outside the Hubei province — and while all of these facilities have reopened — they are ramping up more slowly than we had anticipated. “The…
Family favourite sweet manufacturer Swizzels Matlow is taking a 158,000 sq ft warehouse at Tritax Symmetry’s MA6NITUDE scheme in Middlewich, Cheshire. The new manufacturing facility and distribution facility will form the first phase of a total development of up to 460,000 sq ft. The new facility for Swizzels will be an expansion of the confectioner’s current manufacturing…
While the human cost of coronavirus – or Covid 19 – is hideous… the economic cost is to be determined, even as the trickle-down effect is being felt in supply chains. On Friday JCB said it would be reducing production levels at its UK factories in anticipation of component shortages from Chinese suppliers whose labour…
Morgan McLernon, part of Culina Group, will be expanding in the UK with a new purpose-built site in Telford, Shropshire. The new chilled facility will comprise of 40,000 sq ft of space for the transport of perishable foodstuffs such as fruits and vegetables. Specialising in ambient, chilled, and frozen distribution, Morgan McLernon delivers retailers including…
The number of HGV’s registered in the UK rose 12.6% in 2019, with 48,535 units registered, according to the SMMT, after two years of decline. The growth in registrations of vehicles above 6-tonnes GVW was, the SMMT said, a result of increased registrations in the first half of the year ahead of the mandatory fitment…
Stephen Sanderson Transport will roll out a WMS from Microlistics in its three warehouses in Corby and Market Harborough. Sanderson needed a WMS with a proven record of powering large 3PL providers with multiple sites and multiple clients. The Microlistics Partner Web Portal will feature in the rollout which will enable Sanderson Transport clients to…
Investor developer Gazeley has acquired a 25-acre site near Bedford, to speculatively develop three new warehouses totalling 534,000 sq ft in partnership with L&Q Estates. The new development, which is to be named G-Park Bedford Wixams, will comprise three new logistics warehouse units comprising 249,000 sq ft, 125,000 sq ft and 160,000 sq ft respectively….
P&O Ferrymasters – part of DP World – has implemented a warehouse management system (WMS) in two of its warehouses as part of its port-centric strategy. The WMS, named Corax, was developed by Davanti Warehousing, and will be rolled-out across a warehouse in Rotterdam and one just outside of London. P&O Ferrymasters five-year port-centric strategy…
Intralogistics equipment supplier SSI Schaefer Group has appointed Steffen Bersch as chief executive. Bersch joins on 1 March, and will succeed the interim chief executive Dr. Helmut Limberg, on 1 April after a month-long transition period. He was previously a member of the executive board of food processing technology supplier GEA Group AG. Dr. Kay Mayland,…
JCB is set to reduce production levels at UK factories next week due to anticipated component shortages from Chinese suppliers impacted by the coronavirus outbreak. The move will mean a shorter working week for around 4,000 JCB and agency shop floor employees from Monday 17 February and will see the introduction of a 34-hour week for…
Bradburys Cheese has selected Fowler Welch as its distribution provider for a three year contract. The move initially saw the chilled food distribution giant manage the full supply of cheeses to Tesco, Sainsbury, Wm Morrison and Brakes from the Bradburys HQ in Buxton, and will now also supply to Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl and Bidfood. The…
Yusen Logistics has started operations at its distribution centre in the East Midlands Gateway in Northampton. The 85,000 sq ft cross dock facility has been commissioned to help with the growth of the Yusen shared user delivery network. The new hub will provide service for “white goods” customers, and the Yusen pallet network for general…
Marks & Spencer has said that its move to a national network of distribution centres will be complete next summer as it looks to “work to fix the basics of its supply chain”. The retailer said that it needed to move faster to address long-standing issues in its clothing and home supply chain around availability…
Kärcher’s Banbury headquarters will enhance its environmental performance through its 967 solar panels and solar funding model. The company has taken a step towards increasing its environmental performance throughout its supply chain by installing almost 967 solar panels on the roof of its Banbury headquarters with a funding model, to reduce its reliance on the…
Two-thirds (66%) of transport managers believe that not enough is being done to limit the environmental impact of logistics operations. According to a survey by Paragon System Software Systems 75% of transport planning professionals said they had increased pressure on their logistics operations to reduce environmental impact, however, 66% said they felt that not enough…
Supply chain exectutives have said they expect a recession in 2020 due to concerns over global trade volumes and ongoing friction between China and the United States. 64% of the 780 industry professionals surveyed for the 2020 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index say a recession is likely in the next 12 months. They identified rising…
Panache Lingerie has implemented a multi-level omni-channel model, managed by Indigo WMS, covering over one million stock items, 11,500 individual SKUs and ensuring 98% stock availability. The plus size lingerie firm exports to over 53 countries from its 54,000 sq ft warehouse in Sheffield and Paul Webster, logistics manager at Panache, said: “Indigo WMS has…
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