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.
Grupo Modelo, LG Electronics, Texas Instruments, TNT Logistics and US Foodservice are now using i2’s Transportation and Distribution Management (TDM) solution to overcome transport challenges.
As Logistics Manager was going to press, Morrisons said it was in talks with both the TGWU and the GMB over the outcome of their recent ballots, which were “held in pursuit of their desire for joint national bargaining” with the supermarket chain.
Salmon Developments and NFU Mutual joint venture Salmon Harvester has sold the third and final unit at Freeway Park, Normanton, West Yorkshire, paving the way for a second phase of 11,890sq m.
Outsourcing the shipping function is attractive, but what about the legal position for import/export declarations?
Pallet pooling services could be the way forward in reducing costs for the future of pallet-based distribution, according to the Faber Halbertsma Group.
Globalisation is a factor which is continuing to affect the location of industrial facilities in Yorkshire and the North-east.
Unwilling to forgo the sophisticated inventory optimisation software it enjoyed under the RAC, Universal Components found an SME-sized budget was not a constraint when choosing its own solution.
Material handling specialist Industrial Automation has launched an updated version of its ‘Staktec’ pallet stacker / dispenser. The new ‘Staktec’ design improves on the performance of its predecessor by offering a significantly quicker cycle time.
