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Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) has signed a £6M deal with the Burford Group for a 7,355sq m distribution unit at Cabot Park, Bristol. The facility will be the brewer’s new distribution centre and trading office for the region.

The first tender to use Freight Traders new ‘bid upload’ software has gone live and is now in progress. Bid upload is a sophisticated off-line bidding tool enabling offers to be made in less than ten seconds and taking part in tenders is even faster.

New Forest Ice Cream (NFIC) has selected integrated storage and materials handling solutions company Locators to provide a complete racking installation at its new site on Southampton’s Hounsdown Industrial Estate. Won on competitive tender, Locators de

More than half of Scottish suppliers have little or no knowledge of factory gate pricing (FGP) which could leave many of them at a severe disadvantage unless they take steps now to address the situation, a new report by Scottish Food & Drink reveals.

Two new Mitsubishi counterbalance forklift trucks – a 2.5 tonne LP gas FG25K and an FBK RT 1.5 tonne three-wheel electric model – are contributing to the materials handling needs of the Morgan Motor Company. The vehicles, which replace two outdated forkli

SSI Schaefer has added free-standing cantilever shelving systems to its range of handling and storage equipment. The R3000 free-standing racks, designed for the storage of high turnover items, comprise support uprights, tie bars, cross braces and cantilev

Henderson Global Investors which, in partnership with Scottish Capital Group, bought the former Motorola building at Bathgate 12 months ago has substantially transformed the building and relaunched it as The Pyramids Business Park.

Freight forwarder Davies Turner is now offering a new direct service to shippers importing high value goods from abroad whereby they have the opportunity to delay paying Customs duty until the items are required.

Samsung’s factory at Middlesbrough, which produces computer screens, features the latest production methods so that it can react instantly to one of the world’s fastest changing markets – each of the seven lines at the plant can produce, test and package