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Railway pension fund RPMI Railpen, has bought a 5.85 acres plot in Waltham Cross, London to speculatively develop a new, Grade A, warehouse and logistics scheme with development partner Wrenbridge. Alastair Dawson, senior asset manager at RPMI Railpen, said: “The purchase of this Waltham Cross site reflects our appetite and ability to commit to large…
Frozen food retailer Iceland has taken a 284,000 sq ft warehouse in Livingstone, Scotland. It has taken a 20 year lease on the unit at Houston Industrial Estate, paying a rent of £6 per sq ft. Owned by RPMI Railpen (Railpen), the investment manager for the £30bn Railways pension schemes, the Livingston site will serve…
Pharmaceutical logistics provider EHDH is to acquire Movianto from Owens & Minor. EHDH said it would be able to use Movianto’s geographical coverage to offer it’s first “one-stop-shop” logistics solution throughout Europe. EHDH chief executive Stéphane Baudry said: “The quality of operations, the solid reputation and the values of Movianto are perfectly consistent with EHDH….
Dedicated e-commerce companies took 25% of all floorspace let and sold in the UK in 2019, according to research by JLL. Ed Cole, head of logistics, JLL said: “Retailers continued to drive demand in the market and last year over a quarter of all Grade A take-up was in dedicated e-com facilities.” Jon Sleeman, director…
Plans have been lodged for a 150,000 sq ft speculative development of in South Yorkshire. EV Waddington, supported by Eastwood & Partners, has submitted an application to Rotherham Council for development on a 15.2 acre plot at Thurcroft Industrial Estate. Planning permission is sought for the construction of five buildings for warehouse and industrial use…
Collett Transport has paid M&B Estates £2.5 million for a 2.3 acre industrial development in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The development, situated at Carr Lane and Spartan Road, comprises three industrial units with offices totalling nearly 76,000 sq ft. It is part-let to Styrene Packaging and Insulation and Tailormade Design Ltd. A vacant unit of 32,700…
Freight forwarder DG International says it has transformed the way it works by developing cloud-based supply chain management software. James Appleby, MD at DG International, said the software, called Horizon, was “bringing increased efficiency and cohesion to our business processes, whilst still providing the human touch through dedicated account managers and operational contacts”. He added:…
Aberdeen Standard Investments’ AIPUT fund (Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) has won planning permission from Slough to build a speculative warehouse at Blackthorne Point industrial estate in Poyle. The high-spec, 27,760 sq ft ‘Black Arrow’ warehouse development will occupy a vacant brownfield site, immediately across the M25 from Heathrow’s Terminal 5. Black Arrow will be…
XPO Logistics has said it is reviewing “strategic alternatives” which include the possible sale or spin-off of one or more of its business units. It said there was no set a timetable for completion of the review process and it not determined which, if any, business units would be sold or spun off. However, it…
Wincanton has secured a contract with Wickes for home delivery of kitchen and bathroom products across south west England, the Midlands and parts of Wales. Items will be loaded onto final delivery vehicles in Northampton and be moved to three locations operated by Wincanton where drivers will be swapped to conduct the delivery leg. Dudley…
Hyundai and Kia are to invest €100 million (£85.4 million) in UK-based electric delivery vehicle start-up Arrival. Hyundai will invest €80 million and Kia €20 million as part of plans to introduce small and medium-sized electric vans targeted at vehicle operators in the logistics sector. Arrival has been working with UPS, Royal Mail and John…
Nestlé is to pay a CHF 1.5 billion (£1.19 billion) premium for sourcing up to 2 million metric tons of food-grade recycled plastics between now and 2025. It will also launch a CHF 250 million (£198.7 million) sustainable packaging venture fund to invest in start-up companies that focus on packaging innovation, including new materials, refill systems and…
Lynas Foodservice Group has chosen Axion GB to manufacture and install an automated sortation system in its new distribution hub in Lusk, County Dublin. The sortation system is capable of processing 45 food products a minute to 11 destination lanes, which will allow the Lusk distribution hub to sort 20,000 products in a shift. Alastair…
SmartFreight will be showcasing its latest delivery system at IntraLogisteX 2020 on 31 March and 1 April in Coventry. Centrepiece for visitors to the SmartFreight stand (1110) at the Ricoh Arena will be live demonstrations of its latest delivery system, along with informative videos on how using the firm’s platform eliminates the need to access…
A private equity bid for Clipper Logistics has stalled after Sun Capital said it would not be making an offer for the business. LSE listed Clipper said in November it had received a preliminary approach from Sun Capital, with a December deadline extended into January “to allow further time for the ongoing discussions to take…
Over 1,000 NHS trust staff have spent more than £8 million on a new procurement platform, The Edge4Health, in the past three months. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were the first organisations to go live with The Edge4Health –…
Goplasticpallets will be exhibiting at IntraLogisteX 2020, its first appearance at the intralogistics exhibition. Goplasticpallets will be on stand 214 showcasing its range of reusable and recyclable transit packaging. Boxes on show will include the company’s latest robust sleeve pack the CabCube 1210 9F 2.00 and a variety of smaller boxes that fold, stack and…
Real estate fund manager Moorfield has sold a 385,000 sq ft shed in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire for £29m to REIT W.P. Carey. The unit had been let to Poundstretcher on a 25 year lease that started in December 2017 but was subsequently sub-let to Buy It Direct in 2019 on a 10 year sub-lease. The…
Wincanton has seen a year-on-year increase in the volume of goods it moved during the Christmas peak. The 3PL completed 4,207 shipping container journeys, up 31% from 2018, and dispatched 25 million cases of food and drink. The company also processed 250,000 FMCG pallets. Earlier this month Wincanton renewed its contract with Wickes to provide…
Changing someone’s perception of you is exceedingly difficult. I’m old enough to remember that people went crazy for Sunny Delight because it was packed with vitamin C. After some awkward headlines customer perceptions moved 180 degrees. Now you struggle to see it on the shelves. Yodel has always struggled with the same headlines that have…
St. Modwen has secured planning permission from Derby City Council for a 3 million sq ft site adjacent to Pride Park in the city, after submitting a revised proposal with Network Rail. The developer’s £80m scheme was formerly known as the Derby Triangle, and will consist of up to 650,000 sq ft of industrial logistics…
Yodel has said that it used Christmas peak 2019 as an opportunity to change perceptions around the business, both from a retailer and end-customer perspective. Speaking to Logistics Manager Mike Hancox, chief executive of Yodel, said: “I am very lucky to join the business when it is on the way up. It has been a…
Clipper Logistics has been revealed as the unnamed 3PL that will provided fully-outsourced logistics services to retailer Joules. Joules said on Friday (10 January) that it had chosen a then unnamed 3PL to operate its UK logistics operations after a Christmas that saw stock availability issues hit e-commerce conversions. That 3PL, now revealed as Clipper Logistics,…
The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the re-opening of the Northern Ireland Assembly, saying it will provide “long-overdue reassurance” that logistics sector concerns can be prioritised by government in the region. Seamus Leheny, Northern Ireland policy manager at the FTA, said the Assembly needed to prioritise infrastructure spending after “three years of stagnation” to “protect…
UPS and the Trinity College in Dublin are to work together on sustainability after signing a five year partnership. The partnership oversees the launch of two initiatives at the Trinity College Dublin’s campus in the city centre. A UPS urban eco package hub will act as a mini distribution centre for parcel deliveries, which will…
Bury, Greater Manchester-based The Mailing Room has purchased Bedfordshire-based Digital Post Solutions. Following the deal co-founder of Digital Post Solutions, Terry Smart will retire, while the company’s other co-founder Mark Steele will stay on. Steele, along with Digital Post Solutions director James Johnson will join The Mail Room to help integrate Digital Post Solutions accounts…
Joules has chosen an unnamed 3PL to operate its UK logistics operations after a Christmas that saw stock availability issues hit e-commerce conversions. The mystery 3PL will also be responsible for helping to transfer the company’s US distribution centre to a new partner. As a result the retailer said it would incur incremental non-recurring costs…
Lidl UK said its overall sales increased by 11% year-on-year over the Christmas period. It cited the latest figures from Kantar WorldPanel, which said that customers switched £110m worth of spending over to Lidl over the 12 weeks leading up to 29 December. The retailer singled out its beers, wines and spirits range, which saw…
Superdry blamed shortages of better selling products, rivals’ promotional activity and subdued Christmas spending for a 15.8% year-on-year fall in Christmas and Black Friday trading. For the 10 weeks to 4 January the fashion retailer said that its peak trading performance was lower than expected as its transitioned to a full price stance. Overall group…
British Retail Consortium chief executive Helen Dickinson has described 2019 as the “worst year on record” as it was the first to show an overall decline in retail sales. The BRC said that total retail sales in November and December – incorporating Christmas and Black Friday – were down 0.9% compared to 2018. Dickinson said…
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