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Business Post has warned that it has not achieved the expected margin improvements in its parcels business since its interim results in November.

Woolworths processes some 6.5 million customer transactions a week and runs five main distribution centres based at Swindon, Rugby, Bedford and two operations at Castleton near Rochdale.

The key issue for project management today is building as quickly as possible isn’t it?” What makes a development successful?

In consultation with the freight logistics industry, Skills for Logistics has developed a new vocational qualification in an effort to dispel the erroneous ‘white van man’ tag that can tarnish small businesses.

Born out of the old NHS Supplies organisation, NHS Logistics is tasked with supplying a huge range of products to hospitals around the country.

Is it a chicken and egg situation? Because there is a dearth of available sites for distribution development in the traditional core Midlands area, occupiers, developers and investors are having to look at alternative locations.

In little over three months the logistics landscape has changed dramatically. Major players in the market have been taken over or are up for sale as the industry realigns itself to reflect the changes in the global economy.