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Doncaster Council has approved plans for a 3.5 million sq ft advanced manufacturing and logistics development located at Doncaster Sheffield Airport, (DSA). DSA is one of the largest strategic development zones in the Yorkshire region, owned and managed by regeneration business, Peel L&P. The approval is subject to a S106 agreement and finalising Highways conditions….
Trebor Developments and partner, Hillwood have secured planning permission for 409,000 sq ft warehouse in Doncaster Known as Gateway4, as it is just off Junction 4 of the M18 motorway, the facility will be developed speculatively. The parternsrship agreed terms with Lazarus Properties to purchase the 27 acre site earlier this year and following the…
Muse Developments has pre-sold two further units, totalling 56,000 sq ft, at its flagship industrial development, Logic Leeds. Phoenix Investment Management has bought a 25,000 sq ft unit, as part of its growing investment portfolio, with wholesale supplier of luxury hospitality textiles, Pegasus World, taking an adjacent unit of 31,000 sq ft. Both units were…
Ziegler UK has signed a lease on a 95,000 sq ft ambient warehouse at DP World London Gateway Logistics Park. Ziegler will occupy the space from April 2020, and it will be the home of its London-centric logistics hub, for the handling of import and export consignments. The company will offer facilitating customs processes and…
Pallet network Palletforce, part of EV Cargo, said it has delivered some £5 million of new business to its members across 200 trading accounts over the last 12 months. Palletforce said that over 100,000 new business pallets had been secured across mainly SME trading accounts. Furthermore Palletforce reported handling a company record 100,000 pallets in…
Eddie Stobart Logistics is yet to receive a formal offer from Wincanton, but it has received an offer from DouglasBay Capital for a 51 per cent stake in the troubled 3PL. The DouglasBay Capital offer would also see it invest £55 million into Stobart’s financing through a payment-in-kind (PIK) loan which “will be used to…
Tuffnells Parcel Express has secured a £5.17 million sale and leaseback deal with Campus Overseas Corp for two warehouses in Belvedere, Kent and Carnforth in Lancashire. In September Tuffnells parent company parent Connect Group exchanged contracts for the sale of six Tuffnells distribution depots with Urban Logistics Prop Co 1 as part of a proposed…
Xpediator has appointed Robert Ross as its chief financial officer of the group and will commence responsibilities on January 1st 2020. Ross comes from Europa Worldwide Group where he is currently finance director. He has led the finance division of the 3PL since November 2015. Richard Myson, currently interim chief financial officer, will become chief…
Developer St Modwen has completed a 103,947 sq ft speculative warehouse on the third phase of its 1 million sq ft St Modwen Park Burton scheme in the West Midlands. The unit, which includes 10 dock levellers (including 2 euro-docks), a 50m deep yard and Grade A office space. Katie Monks, of joint agent Savills,…
Trebor Developments and Seddon have selected Harris Lamb as joint agents on their Prime Point 14 scheme in Stafford with Savills and Bromwich Hardy. The scheme has planning permission for two 66,628 sq ft and 76,908 sq ft units to be located to the north of Stafford town centre within one mile of the M6’s Junction 14. The buildings, Prime 1 and Prime 2, will…
M&G Real Estate and Trebor Developments have appointed A&H Construction as main contractor for a new 325,000 sq ft industrial facility in Redditch. Construction will start in November, with the scheme expected to be complete and ready to welcome the tenant, Pilkington Automotive, by Summer 2020. The project involves the construction of a 72,000 sq…
E-commerce dominates the retail sector like no other materials handling market. More customers want a greater diversity of choice delivered directly to their homes in the quickest and most convenient time possible. For those supplying goods under such constraints the demands on existing warehousing infrastructure are enormous… Christopher Walton investigates. Compound this with the potential…
Workspace provider IWG, has signed a double lease for DC4 and DC5 adjoining properties at developer investor Prologis’ Prologis Park Hemel Hempstead scheme in the South east. The deal sees the letting of warehouse space totalling 74,314 sq ft which will be used as the main UK distribution centre for the business, providing storage space…
Menzies Distribution has opened a 24-hour newstrade hub in Inverness managing newspaper and magazine deliveries and returns for retailers Newstrade retailers in Inverness were previously served from a Menzies Distribution facility that handled both newstrade and parcel deliveries, however, the new site will now provide a dedicated support for newstrade operations, to meet just-in-time delivery…
Core Management Logistics (CML) has opened a 60,000 sq ft, three tier mezzanine in Magna Park, Lutterworth. On each floor of the mezzanine there is capacity for 18,000 single SKU pick bins. The unit has the capacity to process 1.5 million orders a year. Kerry Delaney, commercial director at CML, said: “We are very excited…
Paloma Capital is speculatively developing a new 32,300 sq ft warehouse in Portsmouth. The £2.7 million facility on 5 Interchange Park, is on track for completion in January 2020. It comprises 28,094 sq ft of industrial/warehouse space and 4,248 sq ft of offices with 8m eaves and parking for 67 cars. It will have an EPC A…
All five divisions at Deutsche Post DHL Group saw turnover and profit gains during the third quarter of 2019 as its chief executive said the business was growing “even in uncertain times”. Turnover at Deutsche Post DHL increased 4.7 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter to €15.6 billion while operating profit rose to €942…
Retail is at an “inflection point” opined JLL; high street retail faces “a near existential problem” said Mothercare as its UK stores entered administration while M&S said a “fundamental rethink” was required in its supply chain… It’s easy to have immediacy bias, with all these headlines coming within days of each other, but we are…
Today’s consumer market demands logistics operators to constantly be on their A-game. There is no room for error as providers adhere to speedy delivery times, exceptional customer service and reduced costs. But how do you tick all the boxes? Maria Highland explores whether transport management systems could be the silver bullet operators are searching for….
Fashion distributor Selective Marketplace has purchased a 66,000 sq ft warehouse unit from Crosslink 646 in Loughborough, developed by Rotherhill. Hannah Dashper, operations director at Selective Marketplace, said: “Our new warehouse at Crosslink has been designed to our detailed specification. It will enable us to consolidate all of our stock into one location which will…
The use of a pre-filled mobile pallet display, known as a ‘Dolly’, in convenience stores could result in an additional 600,000 hours of labour on shop floors every year, according to CHEP UK and Ireland. CHEP said that the small, wheeled quarter pallet display would reduce staff hours currently tied-up in ‘pack-by-pack’ display replenishment or…
Panther Warehousing has signed a two year contract with Habitat to deliver all orders weighing more than 31 kilograms, or those that are bulky enough to require two-man delivery. The Northampton-based company will also continue to deliver large furniture such as sofa’s and beds for Habitat to customers, seven days a week – which it…
Premium drinks brand wholesaler Chalié Richards & Company has signed a deal with SEGRO to double the size of its warehouse and distribution facility at SEGRO Metropolitan Park in Greenford, West London. The 319-year-old artisan wine and spirits wholesaler has agreed to a new lease, which will increase its footprint to more than 24,000 sq…
Improving the service and maintenance strategy of forklift fleets is a complex task driven by a combination of technology, planning and design. Alexandra Leonards looks at how manufacturers are refining the function and explores the impact Euro Stage V is having on costs. The burden on logistics operators to adapt to an ever-expanding e-commerce market,…
JLL has warned that retail is at an “inflection point” where profitable retail can now only be achieved through efficient supply chain and logistics management. The warning comes as JLL publishes Redefining Retail Logistics report. Jon Sleeman, head of EMEA industrial and logistics research at JLL and co-author of the report, said: “We are at an…
Marshall Construction has started on site with its 316,500 sq ft industrial scheme in Bradford. The site on Gain Lane will offer commercial space and the potential to host up to 550 jobs. It will include eight new units, which will range from 40,000 to 75,000 sq ft in size. The first two units on…
Retailers are always looking to make home deliveries easier, faster and greener in the face of the growing e-commerce market and environmentally-savvy consumers. But can you keep the balance between being green and keeping an expanding customer base happy? Maria Highland investigates. There is no doubt that the way we shop has changed in recent…
Despite the ease in rent levels round the Eastern M25 industrial market over the past six to nine months rents are set to grow again according to property consultant Glenny. Rental growth eased in Q2/Q3 2019 for the first time in almost eight years. with only one location in Glenny’s twice yearly Rent Survey where…
Developer Trebor Developments and partner, Hillwood, have secured detailed consent for 244,452 sq ft speculative industrial scheme at The site was acquired in 2018 and planning has now been granted for buildings of 33,566 sq ft, 76,627 sq ft and 134,269 sq ft, which will be developed out as a single phase. Work on site…
Marks and Spencer has blamed supply chain issues for a 5.5 per cent fall in clothing and home sales during the first half of its financial year. It said its clothing and home, as well as its food business had been held back by limitations in supply chain capability and it has now started a…
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