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DaimlerChrysler UK has awarded a five-year, multimillion pound contract to TNT Logistics to manage aftermarket distribution of the group’s automotive parts nationwide.
Paper processor Middleton Paper Company‘s new Still MX-X series modular VNA combi-order pickers are achieving a despatch lead time of just 30 minutes. Middleton was the first company in the UK to take delivery of the new MX-X, as revealed in Logist
IMS of Smithfield, a wholesale meat supplier of beef, pork, lamb, poultry, game and speciality products to the catering trade, has implemented stringent measures to ensure that health and hygiene are an integral part of its production and food ma
Westler Foods has installed ATMS’ StockTrackPLUS warehouse management system with RF terminals for production receipt and finished goods control. The development follows the decision to take its distribution and warehousing in-house followin
Preston-based clothing wear manufacturer CCM, part of the Johnson Service Group, is using Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express to deliver up to three million garments per year as part of a £500,000 contract.
Supermarket giant Tesco can confidently claim to be delivering the goods with its Internet shopping arm having appointed mobile computing specialist Xperience to supply 300 of its largest shops with a state-of-the-art electronic order picking and f
When Computer 2000 moved to a new custom-built warehouse, the introduction of an upgraded warehouse management system (WMS) posed a massive measuring problem for the computer equipment distributor. In order for the new system to work, it needed t
A theme emerging from the recent Intermodal Transport & Logistics 2004 conference in Copenhagen concerned the capacity of the rail network and intermodal terminals to absorb the growth of international combined transport in forthcoming years. The E
Mothercare has chosen Exel to manage its UK distribution centres. Both companies will work together to relocate Mothercare’s operations from its Support Distribution Centre (SDC) in Coventry, to a new 27,900sq m national distribution centre
