This Issue

Bags of ideas
The big retailers are waking up to the challenge of more environmentally friendly packaging and that it is beginning to have an impact right across the supply chain. Malory Davies reports on the trends....01 Mar 2010

Behind the shed
Iveco has been named Official Sponsor of the Fiat Yamaha MotoGP Team whose rider Valentino Rossi has won the world championship nine times....01 Mar 2010

FP green lines
FP International has launched two environmentally friendly packaging lines....01 Mar 2010

Herts and minds
Time is running out for occupiers to get a good deal north of the M25, says Lucy Tesseras...01 Mar 2010

adidas invests £20m to automate Trafford site
A combination of network consolidation and warehouse automation has resulted in an improved supply chain for global sportswear brand adidas....01 Mar 2010

Co-op reaps benefits of merged system
Zetes rolled out a combined voice and Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system for the Co-op in Sweden, which the company says has pushed up productivity by some 70-80 per cent....01 Mar 2010

Let's get together in Romania
A new Logistex system for the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company increases pallet handling capacity by 33 per cent and enables the company to meet growth in the Romanian market....01 Mar 2010

Motorola unveils voice-only terminal
Motorola has released the WT1090 - a voice-only wearable terminal designed for voice picking and other distribution applications....01 Mar 2010

I sentence you to community service
Logistics organisations need to work together to present a common view on the potential that logistics offers...01 Mar 2010

Keep very quiet - and you might be allowed out at night
It's been very long slow process, but the government is coming round to the idea that there is a logic to making deliveries at nights and weekends. Malory Davies looks at proposals...01 Mar 2010

Think global, act local
Over the past few years the growth of globalisation has challenged logisticians to deal with the massive changes of moving from local to international supply chains. ...01 Mar 2010