Armstrong Logistics has taken developer Goodman’s 96,500 sq ft Unit 3 warehouse on RD Park Hinckley in Leicestershire to service a retail supermarket contract.
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Online retail sales rose by five per cent on a like-for-like January 2009 to January 2010, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index – the lowest annual growth rate in the history of the Index.
Government planning policy for ports is “unfit for purpose”, according to The Royal Town Planning Institute, which represents 22,000 planners.
Bitumen supplier Petroplus has extended its relationship with DHL Supply Chain for five years in a deal worth £30m.
Geodis Calberson has launched a distribution product called Eurotop, which is available from the UK to European destinations including Austria, Benelux, France, Germany, Spain, Itlay and Portugal.
IFS has launched Virtual Maps, a route planning tool which overlays information about ongoing and planned jobs with road and satellite maps using Microsoft’s Bing Maps platform.
The TNT group saw operating profit (EBIT) fall 34 per cent to 648m euros for 2009. Sales were down 6.7 per cent to 10.4bn euros “mainly as a result of the various one-offs and impairments”.
The German government is pushing ahead with its target of getting one million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, by trialling a fleet of Smith Electric Vehicles.
The number of business failures is continuing to fall in 2010, according to business information provider Equifax.
Farmers’ co-operative First Milk has signed a contract with Bibby Distribution worth £50 million to provide a farm collection service in west Wales, as well as retaining a similar contract in Scotland and north Cumbria.
