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According to Savills’ latest European Logistics survey rents have declined six per cent in prime properties and seven per cent in secondary warehouses year-on-year.

Plastic laminates supplier Payne Worldwide has increased stockholding with 100 per cent selectivity and reduced product damage with a tailored system from The Storage Equipment Centre.

Swedish medi-tech company Sandvik has secured a 15-year multi-million pound deal for a 112,000 sq ft orthopaedic implant and instrument production and distribution facility at JF Finnegan’s Beighton Link Business Park in South Yorkshire.

SSI Schaefer has completed a 40-metre tall, rack-supported high bay warehouse production, storage and distribution facility in Fredericia, Denmark, for brewing giant Carlsberg. The centre has 76,000 pallet storage positions, an integrated pallet conveyor

Bicycle and car parts retailer Halfords is to take a new 320,000 sq ft purpose-built distribution centre in Keresley Park, Coventry as part of its reorganisation plans for the distribution network in 2010.

MG sports cars are once again in production at Longbridge in Birmingham, and to increase the pick rate of small components in the company’s logistics centre, MG has chosen Linpac Storage Systems to design and install a new range of dynamic carton live she

Property agents across the country are reporting an increase in the number of companies enquiring about space for logistics for the first time in a year.

Electrical retailer Maplin recently moved to a 200,000 sq ft distribution centre atManvers, close to Rotherham.

Enquiries are on the up, but the thought that occupiers could turn and flee again must be too dreadful to bear, says LIZA HELPS.

Estonia plans to turn hundreds of hectares land in Ida-Virumaa into an industrial park.