UK manufacturing is moving out of recession at last, according to the Purchasing Managers Index produced by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply and Markit.
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Supermarket giant Tesco enlisted newly formed CoGri Malaysia to construct a special floor slab at its largest purpose built distribution centre in south east Asia.
The recession has left the Staffordshire area with a surplus of large warehouses and distribution hubs trying to find occupiers, according to the Annual Review by Instaffs, the inward investment agency.
Permaban Floor Solutions has completed a project for real estate company Giffels Management Russia on a 600,000 sq m distribution centre near Moscow.
All too frequently the floor gets overlooked, and it often seems to take an accident or for equipment to get damaged before it gets a second look. Lucy Tesseras thinks it deserves better
The latest construction survey says the construction of factories and warehouses is expected to fall almost 60 per cent between 2007 and 2010.
Sunlight Group has taken 48,000 sq ft in three warehouse/ industrial units at C1 Trade Park, part of the Aberaman Industrial Estate near Aberdare, on a ten-year lease at a stepped rent rising to £110,000 in the fourth year.
Developer ProLogis has racked up lettings on existing built space totalling more than one million sq ft across four schemes in the last two months.
With no speculative development in sight and a plethora of deals going down Liza Helps investigates how real the prospect is of a warehouse shortage.
Companies are inching towards embedding collaboration into their supply chains, but how far can it go?
