Value retailer Poundstretcher, part of the Brown and Jackson Group, has more than 300 stores nationwide with both high street and out of town locations. Established in 1981, Poundstretcher has streamlined its offering to provide a variety of good quality
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When Palletways needed to secondary-sort product for a major customer it turned to Axiom GB to develop a manual cross docking system that would improve order picking efficiency and secondary-level sorting.
Asda’s new 9,300sq m facility at AMEC Development’s flagship scheme Wakefield Europort is well underway, bringing the total amount of space occupied to more than 120,900sq m. The new accommodation will provide an Asda Service Centre (ASC) and IT facility,
Dutch B2B group Hagemeyer specialises in supplying the electrical materials, safety and Maintenance and Repair Operations (MRO) sectors throughout Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
About 90% of Hagemeyer’s trade is for next-day delivery.Beaumont explains: “We needed to implement a new enterprise management system, and we chose Movex. We created a national distribution centre at Runcorn which is a 330,000sq ft automated, high-bay fac
Eurologistics, which works all year round, except for Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, achieved a steady warehouse performance of more than 99% for the 12 months to April 2004, says Debes.
US-based group Procter & Gamble (P&G) manufactures and markets nearly 300 brands of consumer products including houseold names Lenor, Ariel, Pampers, Sunny Delight and Pringles. With a workforce of nearly 100,000 worldwide, the group operates in nearly 80
Mercado, part of the Headlam Group, is one of the largest suppliers of floor coverings in Europe. The company has a new 14,900sq m regional distribution centre (RDC) built from a greenfield site and which is one of Headlam’s largest units in the UK.
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
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.
