Marks & Spencer is to delay the construction of its £67m distribution centre in Bradford as it slashes non-essential spending following a sharp fall in profits.
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St Austell Brewery has snapped up the 100,000 sq ft former Borders Books warehouse on the St Columb Major Business Park, near Newquay, as a new regional distribution centre.
A further 600,000 sq ft of land has been released at Carisbrooke Investment’s 55-acre Haverhill Business Park in Suffolk for bespoke freehold and leasehold buildings up to 200,000 sq ft.
The Bristol Port Company has sealed a one million pound contract with Cooper Specialised Handling to supply it with four 45-tonne, customised reach stackers from Konecranes. Cooper SH, the UK distributor for lift equipment manufacturer Konecranes, won
ProLogis is offering leases from three years with six monthly break clauses thereafter across the whole of its wholly-owned five million sq ft portfolio in the UK, say property sources.
The Council for the Protection of Rural England, South Yorkshire branch, is opposing two distribution developments in the region, which could provide up to 4,000 jobs.
EnvironCom has taken Threadneedle Property Investments’ 157,000 sq ft Scope warehouse on the Spittlegate Industrial Estate to the south of Grantham.
Tesco has been pulled as a potential occupier for an 850,000 sq ft warehouse at Goodman’s million sq ft scheme in Andover.
Yorkshire-based vegetable oil products supplier Kerfoot Group has paid £1.1 million for two units totalling 30,000 sq ft at Opus Land’s 120,000 sq ft Opus 36 scheme in Goole.
Gladman Developments has won planning permission for a £20 million, 317,859 sq ft industrial and distribution scheme at Wentworth Distribution Park, Tankersley, South Yorkshire, less than one mile from Junction 36 of the M1 motorway.
