The launch of Gillette’s Fusion razor last month presented a huge logistics challenge. Making it run smoothly was down to Maurice Lee.
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Catesby Property Group has recently acquired a five-acre site alongside the M6 and close to the centre of Birmingham on which it plans a £8 million distribution scheme. A detailed planning application for two 50,000 sq ft buildings has been submitted.
Homebase has bought six 13.6m step frame tri-axle box van lifting deck trailers and six 13.7m ratchet deck curtainsiders from Don-Bur.
BA World Cargo has unveiled a new £15m premium handling facility at London Heathrow. The new transit shed, called Premia, is expected to begin full operations this month.
Skills for Logistics has appointed Paul Fox, managing director of Fox Group, to its board of directors.
Sales of Volvo Trucks decreased by 3 per cent between January and July 2006, from 62,141 to 60,068 in 2005.
Schmitz Cargobull has completed major refurbishment programme at its used trailer centre in Maldon, Essex.
W H Malcolm is fitting its entire fleet of vehicles with Tiss “Standard” anti-siphon device.
Wincanton has been awarded a three-year extension to its contract with BP Lubricants, which will see Wincanton managing the warehousing and distribution of both bulk and packaged lubricants throughout the UK.
TDG has upgraded its warehouse management system to an AIX MARC, which it is running on an IBM ISeries I570 Processor, at its Pocklington site in Yorkshire.
