John Hancock head of MFI, Britain’s biggest furniture store chain has stepped down following an unsettled appointment. MFI insists that Hancock’s departure has nothing to do with the supply chain problems that the company faced.
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Industry rivals Boots and Alliance UniChem are expected to announce a merger deal today worth £7.5Bn. The deal will be the largest retail merger since Morrisons bought out Safeway for £3Bn in March 2004.
Gerald Eve, adviser to some of Scotland’s largest businesses, has welcomed Jack McConnell’s decision to cut rates for business premises in Scotland by about 10%.
There is no doubt that there are synergies between the acquisitive Deutsche Post and the UK’s Exel. But, if the deal does go through and Deutsche Post takes over Exel, what will the consequences be for the logistics industry?
At the beginning of 2004, supply chain provider Wincanton took over P&O’s bonded warehouse operation in Greenford, Middlesex. Since then, there has been a new spring in the depot’s step, as Wincanton has undertaken a lot of inward investment.
Eden Park Developments, part of the Fiducia Group, has received planning permission to build a 2,787sq m industrial/warehouse building on a 1.5 acre greenfield site near J17 of the A1M in Orton Southgate, Peterborough.
World famous toy brand Corgi (UK) prepares to celebrate its golden anniversary next year. In order to cope with the expected increase in demand, it has reviewed its distribution and warehousing operations.
Southern forklift suppliers On3 and Champion have both been awarded the rights to exclusively distribute Doosan-Daewoo FLTs in their respective regions. Korean company Doosan originally paid £1.7Bn for the Daewoo company.
Global supply chains across the retail, automotive, financial services, manufacturing and high-tech markets are dogged with process and cost inefficiencies, according to a survey of 400 organisations across the UK, France, Germany and the US.
Previously, slower-moving lines were picked from static shelving, with the very slow-moving lines being located further away than other slightly faster lines, which meant staff had to walk further to collect slower lines, making them expensive to pick.
