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Kuehne & Nagel has become a major player in the contract logistics market with the acquisition of ACR. Now North West Europe chief Peter Ulber wants to create end-to-end supply chains.

Ebuyer’s web site offers customers more than 15,000 products ranging from plasma TVs and laptops to computer components and software.

Ryder had a significant annual temporary agency labour spend. More than 200 agencies were supplying the company with staff throughout the UK resulting in numerous agency invoices and timesheets being processed at considerable cost.

For paperless, high-capacity picking, Danish company Univeyor has released its vacuum Layer Picker, a centrifugal fan creates a vacuum chamber inside the Layer Picker head,

The trend to globalisation shows no signs of weakening. The purpose of this round table debate was to explore some of the many challenges that global sourcing is throwing up for supply chain operations and for the wider business. By Sam Tulip

Witron Logistik + Informatik is responsible for the installation of the logistics system which has a mechanised warehouse and picking system order picking machinery (OPM).

Hot on the heels of securing planning permission for a 300,000 sq ft warehouse in Runcorn, developer Gladman announced it has secured planning permission for two further buildings; a 27,870 sq m (300,000 sq ft) distribution warehouse at Lymedale Business

Tesco and Sainsbury’s have secured major distribution warehouses in Scotland this month. Sainsbury’s finally got planning permission from Strathclyde Council for a 18,850 sq m (200,000 sq ft) plus shed and Tesco plumped for a massive new

It seems obvious to say that family-owned companies like working with other family-owned companies. But chief executive Theo de Pencier has made use of that to fuel Bibby distribution’s rapid growth over the past few years. now it is turning into a big co