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What is an environmental manager doing in logistics? Martin Johnson, who has just become Kuehne + Nagel’s first national environment manager, explains to Jessica Davies.

Kimberly-Clark is responsible for some of the UK’s most famous brands – Andrex, Kleenex, Kotex and Huggies – but its distribution strategy must cater for products with a relatively low value per cubic metre but standard costs.

Operating margins in the manufacturing sector are being squeezed to their limit, according to Colliers CRE’s April Property Snapshot. It found that while overall growth in the sector is positive, it has slowed markedly in recent months.

Fork lift truck manufacturers have invested heavily in finding alternatives to internal combustion and battery power, and a lot of them are already available. Bob Hine, technical consultant to BITA, says the European Commission is now homing in on two key

GS1 UK, the supply chain standards and solutions organisation, has opened the EPCglobal RFID Test Centre, which is designed to help organisations understand and gain the business benefits that can be achieved from RFID which include cost savings, improved

The perception that there are a lot of big sheds and not much demand in the North West is, like most generalisations, not strictly true.