Like many other retailers, SPAR faced a number of challenges in the late 1990s including ever-increasing SKUs, rising labour costs and a lack of available land to build on. SPAR’s marketing operation wanted the stores to carry a greater range of products
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Davis Derby has added two products to its successful TruckLOG range which provide significant benefits in cost savings and safety. They are the Forward Reverse Speed Interlock (FRSI) and Speed Zoning.
Suzuki GB, advised by FPDSavills, has bought a 10.27-acre site in Milton Keynes from national regeneration agency English Partnerships.
Stationery and computer consumables buying group Integra Office Solutions of celebrating a 20% sales improvement since it began using Parceline Solutions’ pick, pack and distribution service.
High street retailer Boots is using a new transit packaging system designed by Arca Systems which could “revolutionise” the way goods are carried from the warehouse to stores.
Iceland, part of the Big Food Group, is a high street supermarket chain with 760 stores across the UK and Ireland. In Iceland’s 2003 annual report, it set out two strategic objectives – to develop organisation processes and people that enable efficiency
On a new dedicated distribution park in northern France, construction is underway on a 23,700sq m (255,107sq ft) logistics centre. Nothing particularly unusual in that, but this building is the first in mainland Europe to be built using Gazeley’s
The recent successful worldwide distribution of the latest Harry Potter book helped TNT Network Logistics win a three-year contract with Macmillan Distribution, which as well as publishing books, also operates a distributor business
When rapidly growing specialist sausage manufacturer Manor Born developed a newshelf-ready packaging tray it turned to Rigid Corrugated to design and produce strong, side-opening fibreboard cases to fit the trays.
SSI Schaefer’s new LTB transport containers, which are available in a wide range of sizes and variations, have been designed for robust and secure storage and distribution in automation or manual systems.
