Hermes has taken Oxenwood Real Estate’s 78,650 sq ft warehouse facility in Weybridge in Surrey as its main south-east parcel delivery depot. The facility, Logistics 15, at Vickers Drive, West Park Industrial Estate, was taken on a 15-year lease at a rent of £15.15/sq ft. The facility was acquired in June 2019 from the then occupier, Northamber, by Oxenwood for Oxenwood Catalina, its joint venture with…
Real estate investment manager Barings has agreed to forward fund Panattoni’s 358,500 sq ft warehouse scheme in Bolton to the tune of £42.5 million. The project is being delivered on Wingates Industrial Estate, an established logistics and light industrial location, and once completed will comprise of approximately 358,500 sq ft of new Grade A space…
Parcel delivery giant Hermes has secured an £85 million funding for its 339,827 sq ft parcel hub in Barnsley, South Yorkshire through South African property investor Equites Property Fund. The agreement provides that Equites Newlands Group Limited, a company in which Equites International owns 60% of the shares with Newlands Property Development owning the remaining…
Kevin Kufs und Eva Witte verstärken Anfang 2021 die Geschäftsführung der Hermes Fulfilment GmbH, Hamburg, um den CEO Dr. Georg Rau. Der bisherige COO Andreas Stumpf verlässt das Unternehmen zum 31. Dezember 2020 auf eigenen Wunsch, um sich bei einem anderen Handelsunternehmen einer neuen beruflichen Herausforderung zu stellen. Kevin Kufs wird mit Wirkung zum 1….
Private investment and development company FirethornTrust has secured £32.73 million in funding from Federeated Hermes International to develop out its 24.5-acre logistics site near Leighton Buzzard in Bedforshire. Ascent Logistics Park, was acquired by Firethorn from Pears Property in an off market deal in March 2020 and has planning for around 460,000sq ft of space…
Hermes has signed a deal with application programming interface (API) vendor PostTag, to provide an automated platform for its last-mile deliveries. The technology checks, verifies, and locates a customer’s exact address, as an order is placed, without any additional requirements or inputs from the consumer or the driver. Paul Yewman, Chief Executive of PostTag, said: “Covid-19 has changed the way deliveries are made,…
With e-commerce volumes approximately 50% higher than they were a year ago, the home delivery sector faces a massive challenge as it accelerates towards the Christmas peak. Are current service levels sustainable? Christopher Walton explores the options. The long weeks of lockdown were coined as ‘the finest hour for final mile’. With the population effectively…
Coming into 2020 and the West London warehouse market could only be described as robust with more than 1.7 million sq ft of space snapped up in 2019, the highest level since 2014 and the second strongest year on record according to Gerald Eve’s Prime Logistics report. Then lockdown struck says Sarah Downes, director, Heathrow…
Hermes dedicated parcel hub in South Yorkshire has been given a resolution to grant by planning officers at Barnsley Council. The proposals for the 339,827 sq ft building are part of an overall hybrid application being put forward by developer Newlands for a larger scheme, which includes a further 770,000 sq ft of distribution and…
Bei der diesjährigen Hermes Verkehrs.Logistik.Gala in der Wiener Hofburg gewann die Spotworx GmbH für ihre cloud-basierte Supply Chain Management Plattform Spot den Preis in der Kategorie „Supply Chain“. Da das Unternehmen Teil der cargo-partner Gruppe ist, nahm deren CEO Mag. Stefan Krauter den Preis entgegen. Das von Spotworx übermittelte Projekt beschrieb eine Fallstudie über die…
Hermes Germany erwartet im Weihnachtsgeschäft rund 120 Millionen Sendungen (+ rund 20 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahr). In manchen Wochen wird Hermes rund 12 Millionen Pakete zustellen, an Spitzentagen bis zu 2,6 Millionen. Pünktlich zur Peak-Season: Erhöhung der Sortierkapazitäten um ca. 30 Prozent. Neues Depot bei Bremen erweitert Logistiknetzwerk. Rund 3.500 zusätzliche Arbeitskräfte und täglich 3.900…
HERMES Verkehrs.Logistik.Preis 2020 in sechs Kategorien vergeben. Harald Bollmann wurde für sein Lebenswerk als HERMES-Entrepreneur ausgezeichnet. Die Teilnehmerzahl war auf 370 limitiert, die Sicherheitsvorkehrungen waren streng. Dennoch konnte der HERMES Verkehrs.Logistik.Preis auch im heurigen Ausnahmejahr im Rahmen einer glanzvollen Galaveranstaltung in der Hofburg vergeben werden. Fünf Unternehmen erhielten dabei die begehrte Trophäe in insgesamt sechs…
In der Pandemie führt das stark veränderte Konsumverhalten zu deutlichen Verschiebungen in den Sortimenten und den Einkaufskanälen. Die ersten sechs Monate des Geschäftsjahres 2020/21 der Otto Group zeigen, dass die Umsätze im Onlinehandel und insbesondere in den Segmenten Wohnen und Technik stark steigen. Die Otto Group blickt auf einen erfolgreichen Verlauf der ersten sechs Monate…
It’s time to look back on such contrived online sales promotions as Black Friday and Cyber Monday as relics of their time…. In the same way that we view a man with a red flag running in front of a car to warn of its impending arrival. It serves its purposed, it has done its…
Das letzte deutsche Retouren-Zentrum von Hermes Fulfilment in Hamburg wird geschlossen. Grund ist die fehlende Wirtschaftlichkeit. In der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2021 wird die Otto Group den letzten deutschen Retourenbetrieb der Konzerngesellschaft Hermes Fulfilment in Hamburg voraussichtlich schließen. Wie der Konzern bekannt gab, war der Betrieb mit den kleinvolumigen Retouren nicht mehr rentabel, das Unternehmen wird…
Nach Prüfung aller möglichen Alternativen wird die mittelfristige Schließung des letzten deutschen Retourenbetriebes der Konzerngesellschaft Hermes Fulfilment in Hamburg angestrebt. Der innerstädtische Betrieb soll in der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2021 geschlossen werden, um den 840 überwiegend in Teilzeit beschäftigen Kolleg*innen ausreichend Zeit zur Neuorientierung zu geben. Nach langen, sehr reiflichen Überlegungen und der Überprüfung aller möglicher…
Wer ein privates Paket auf die Reise schickt, versendet Liebe und Freude – so beschreibt es über die Hälfte der Deutschen (Liebe: 62 %; Freude: 59 %). Sowohl für Versender*innen als auch Empfänger*innen sind Pakete echte Glücksspender, die in Zeiten von Corona und Social Distancing die Menschen näher zusammenbringen. Zwar vermisst jede*r zweite Deutsche (52…
Natural stone and concrete supplier Marshalls has take a 10,260 sq ft site at St. Modwen’s £260 million Park Access 18 industrial and logistics site in Avonmouth, Bristol. s Marshalls said the move would create 2,200 jobs once complete. The St. Modwen scheme is also home to Ocado Retail, Hermes Parcelnet, Peugeot, and healthcare distributor Movianto….
APC is looking to hire more than 100 new members of staff for the upcoming peak period. The permanent positions vary from drivers to warehouse operatives, to customer service and IT roles. Jonathan Smith, chief executive of APC, said: “The last five months have seen unprecedented demand for our delivery services, as the whole team…
Otto Group, parent company to Hermes UK, has sold a 75% stake in the parcel carrier to US private equity firm Advent International. Under the terms of the deal Otto will retain a 25% stake in the UK activities of Hermes Group. Advent will also acquire a 25% stake in Hermes Germany, including its BorderGuru…
Eine der größten und erfahrensten Beteiligungsgesellschaften, Advent International („Advent“), übernimmt 25 Prozent der Geschäftsanteile an Hermes Germany und 75 Prozent an Hermes UK. Dieser Schritt eröffnet den Paketlogistikunternehmen der Otto Group neue Möglichkeiten, ihre führende Stellung in den beiden bedeutendsten Logistikmärkten Europas auszubauen. Wie bereits auf der Bilanzpressekonferenz am 27. Mai 2020 angekündigt, geht die…
Hermes has increased its returns capacity by 50% in its national distribution hub with the L.A.C. automated conveyor system. The L.A.C. system can process more than 7,000 parcels per hour, 76,000 parcels a day, and more than 500,000 parcels a week, while lowering the cost per parcel. Steve Stanbridge, Engineering Manager at Hermes said: “No…
Yesterday chancellor Rishi Sunak was reportedly considering a 2% levy on e-commerce in a bid to create a £2 billion a year revenue stream for the Treasury. Reading between the lines the assumption would be that the expected tax take from bricks and mortar is way down on any projection, given well, you know… and…
Groupe PSA division Peugeot has signed a ten-year lease to operate a warehouse distribution facility from a 44,640 sq ft unit at St Modwen Park Access 18 Avonmouth. Some 16 businesses are currently occupying space at the 1 million sq ft of warehouse and industrial space at St Modwen Park Access 18 including Ocado Retail,…
Anyone who has ever had an operation of any severity will know that it’s not the initial treatment that hurts, it’s the long, slow recovery to full health. As the world recovers from the collective shock of Covid-19, they key word there is recovery… because nations, economies and industrial sectors will recover at a different…
Parcel carrier Hermes is to invest some £41 million in a new 340,000 sq ft mega hub in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The new hub forms the backbone of a hybrid planning application by Newlands Developments for a larger scheme, which includes a further 770,000 sq ft of distribution and storage space on a 132-acre plot…
Hermes UK is to spend £100m expanding its warehousing capacity, as well as recruiting 10,500 new employees, to deal with the demand for e-commerce created by lockdown. The Yorkshire-based parcels specialist has already spent some £30 million so far this year, opening an additional 90 new sub depots as well as acquiring vehicles and customer…
Parcel delivery firm Hermes is opening ten new depots in response to continued growing demand for online shopping since lockdown began.In September Hermes completed the construction of a third sortation tier at its fully automated Midlands hub in Rugby. Totalling 564,166 sq ft of warehouse and distribution space, the ten locations include a new depot…
An urban warehouse estate in London has been sold to investor developer SEGRO for more than £200 million. SEGRO paid £202.5 million for the 34-acre Perivale Park estate, in West London, from Federated Homes. The estate provides 593,091 sq ft of lettable space across 23 units and has 8 acres of land which is currently…
Die Hermes Fulfilment Ansbach GmbH und die Hermes Einrichtungs Service GmbH & Co. KG haben ihr neues Logistikzentrum im fränkischen Ansbach in Betrieb genommen. Mit einer Gesamtfläche von 76.000 m² handelt es sich um eine der größten neu entwickelten Immobilien iBayern. Das Investitionsvolumen beläuft sich auf 90 Mio. Euro. Zugeschnitten ist die hochmoderne Anlage auf…
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