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Tesco saw its fifth consecutive year of Christmas trading growth, despite what its outgoing chief executive Dave Lewis described as a “subdued UK market”. For the 19 weeks-ending 4 January, like-for-like sales in the UK were down 0.2% to £13.7 bn. The retailer said it saw a strong performance in fresh food, including an enthusiastic…
Online grocery orders boomed at Waitrose, up 23.4%, as John Lewis and Partners said it performed strongly operationally in the run up to Christmas. Gross sales at John Lewis Partnership were down 1.8% year-on-year to £2,167m with its John Lewis division seeing gross sales fall 2.3% year-on-year to £1.13 bn – a drop of 2%…
Wincanton has won a three-year contract renewal with Wickes to provide home delivery of heavier items to customers across the UK. The contract will mean that Wincanton will continue to deliver Wickes’ heavier items such as sandbags and plasterboard that require lifting through truck-mounted cranes to homes and trade customers using its own fleet and…
As the countdown to the Supply Chain Conference 2020 continues, Logistics Manager meets speaker Eirini Etoimou, group production manager, Development, FM, Utilities, at Odeon & UCI Cinemas. The Supply Chain Conference 2020 takes place on 17 and 18 March 2020 at ETC. Venues Monument, 8 Eastcheap, London. This two-day conference brings together the most influential and…
Marks & Spencer continued to cite supply chain issues – this time in its food business – as like-for-like sales increased by 0.2% during Christmas trading. Total UK turnover for its third quarter (the 13 weeks ending 28 December 2019) stood at £2.76 billion, with food up 1.4% to £1.7 billion, but clothing and home…
Global air freight volumes, measured in freight tonne kms (FTKs), decreased by 1.1% year-on-year in November 2019. According to the latest figures from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), November’s performance was the best in eight months, with the slowest year-on-year rate of contraction recorded since March 2019. The IATA said that November’s outcome demonstrated…
Developers Argon Properties and Buccleuch Properties have announced plans for a new industrial scheme for the last parcel of land on Drum Industrial Estate in Chester le Street. They will form a joint venture to build two warehouses of 45,000 and 80,000 sq ft to be known as Panther Court. Naylors Gavin Black and Cushman…
Fashion retailer Big Style Fashions has taken a 15,750 sq ft warehouse at Gaerwen Properties’ Helix Business Park scheme at Ellesmere Port. The retailer has taken the warehouse for a new fulfilment centre for its rapidly expanding online business. Director of Big Style Fashion Darrell Freeman said: “Being based at Helix will allow us to…
North-west wholesaler Rayburn Trading has paid £6 million for the 151,000 sq ft Bury Point warehouse in Manchester. It is thought that the wholesaler is looking to use the site for itself in the future. Currently the property is let on a 10-year lease to Morrisons supermarket. The lease, which runs to 2027, is used…
Prologis has paid £51.4 million for Ravenside Retail Park in Edmonton, north London. The park, which comprises seven retail units totalling 128,507 sq ft, was owned by M&G Real Estate. Robin Woodbridge, head of capital deployment for Prologis in the UK, said the park would continue to operate as a retail park for the “foreseeable…
Orchard Street Investment Management has completed two lettings totalling 63,000 sq ft at Gildersome Spur industrial estate in Leeds. Five lease agreements were signed at Gildersome Spur over 2019 with the two newest lettings completed towards the end of the year. ARC Building Solutions, – specialist in fire barriers and a tenant at Gildersome since…
Over 20% of Christmas trading at Sainsbury’s Argos was conducted online, but the retailer saw total retail sales drop 0.7% in the 15 weeks to 4 January. While in-store groceries grew by 0.4%, online grocery sales were up 7.3% and clothing was up 4.4%. However general merchandise sales dropped 3.9%. Chief executive Mike Coupe said:…
Tritax Symmetry’s 134-acre Symmetry Park Wigan scheme has been recommended for approval at Wigan Council’s planning committee next week. The scheme on Junction 25 of the M6 motorway is set to provide 1.44 million sq ft of logistics employment space and will create 1,650 high-quality jobs when operational, along with 1,200 construction jobs. Symmetry Park…
Monday 23 December was the largest shopping day ever recorded in the UK, according to the latest figures from Kantar, when £798 million of goods were sold. Retailers saw £29.3 billion go through the tills during the ‘golden quarter’ in the 12 weeks ending 29 December 2019. However sales were up just 0.2% or £50m…
Big four supermarket Morrisons said that its Christmas trading had been “challenging” with a 1.7% drop in sales, despite competitive pricing on key items. For the first 22 weeks of the second half of its trading year to 5 January, like for like (LFL) retail sales excluding fuel were down 1.7% while wholesale was stagnant…
As headlines go, I would hope that “Jeremy Corbyn blasts Ocado delivery hub proposal” will get a few people to take a look. We’ve all had a period of time to form our own opinions on the right honourable member for Islington North and soon to be ex-Labour leader, but in his constituency work I…
Jeremy Corbyn, as MP for Islington North, has written to the chief executive of Ocado damning the online retailer’s intention to create a ‘micro-fulfilment centre’ in north London. A planning application to rearrange an existing warehouse’s outbuildings and car park at Bush Industrial Estate on Station Road to create space for general plant machinery, a…
Europa Worldwide has created a new non-network division in its business, focused on import, export and cross-trade full and part loads. The division will be based at its site in Sheffield and will work with its Birmingham based Europa Road division which will focus on express van work, as well as full and part loads….
Sales of vans and light commercials were up 2.4% year-on-year with 365,778 new models hitting UK roads in 2019 – the third highest year on record according to the SMMT. All van segments saw growth during 2019, with small vans weighing less than 2 tonnes up 4.4% (to 26,162 units), medium vans weighing 2 tonnes…
Sales at discount retailer Aldi in the four weeks leading up to Christmas topped £1 billion for the first time in 2019; up 7.9% year-on-year. Aldi said that total sales of beers, wine and spirits increased 9.2% year-on-year with sales of sparkling wine up 14%. Meat sales were also up 8%. Aldi said it sold…
SnapFulfil has said it will improve the user experience of its WMS in 2020, with simplified user interfaces that allow temporary employees to be on-boarded quickly during peak seasons. It also said it was in the final stages of developing its autonomous mobile robot, SnapCart, due to launch in 2020. SnapFulfil MD Tony Dobson said…
New car registrations in the UK fell for the third consecutive year in 2019 despite a 144% year-on-year increase in the sale of battery-powered cars. According to data released by the SMMT new car registrations for 2019 stood at 2.31 million, down 2.4% from 2.36 million in 2018. Registrations in the UK peaked in the…
Provisional year-end take-up for UK logistics warehouses reached 34.1 million sq ft according to figures from Savills research. In a tweet to followers Kevin Mofid, head of logistics and industrial research at Savills said on his twitter account @Kevtheshed: “Provisional year-end take-up for UK logistics warehouses reaches 34.1m sq ft, 31% above the long term…
A ‘slower than usual start’ to clearance promotions meant that John Lewis & Partners saw a decrease of 4.1% in sales during the Christmas period. Bérangère Michel, partner and operations director, at the retailer said: “Fashion sales were up by 5.8%, and last minute Christmas shopping saw sales of beauty up 36%, jewellery up 27%…
Fedex UK has been fined £533,000 after an employee was struck by a reversing forklift truck. Cannock Magistrates’ Court heard that on the morning of 2 November 2017 an employee was walking across the depot at Burntwood Business Park, near Cannock, Staffordshire, when he was struck by a reversing forklift truck. He was pinned to…
Logistics Manager meets Jim Gallagher, supply chain, procurement and logistics director at BSH Home Appliance UK and Ireland, speaker at the Supply Chain Conference 2020. The Supply Chain Conference 2020 takes place on 17 and 18 March 2020 at ETC. Venues Monument, 8 Eastcheap, London. This two-day conference brings together the most influential and inspiring supply chain…
The UK economy “limped through the final quarter of 2019” with manufacturers left “listless”, according to a survey published by the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC). UK manufacturers reported negative export and domestic orders over the second half of 2019. It is the first time two consecutive quarters have reported negative growth since the recessions…
Happy New Year to all Logistics Manager readers. Here’s to a prosperous and successful 2020. So, what does this year have in store for all logistics professionals? Here are my predictions. No respite from the B-word… After the election, it’s happening. And let’s face it, it was always going to happen. But what kind of…
PLP UK Logistics Venture (UKLV), has secured a 43-acre plot at Gateway 45, in Leeds from Aire Valley Land, a joint venture between Harworth Group and Evans Property Group. The site which has just secured planning consent, could accommodate up to 855,000 sq ft of industrial and distribution space. Work is set to begin on…
To kick-start the New Year we continue our series of profiles on speakers at the Supply Chain Conference 2020. Up next: Beata Wojna, E2E delivery lead at Shell Aviation. The Supply Chain Conference 2020 takes place on 17 and 18 March 2020 at ETC. Venues Monument, 8 Eastcheap, London. This two-day conference brings together the most…
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