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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Leading electrical retailer Comet has taken on 35 Volvo FM12 tractor units on a four-year contract hire deal with Volvo Financial Services after Volvo won a competitive tender against several other manufacturers.
Crown has extended its range of SP 3000 stockpickers to include two new models featuring extra lift height.
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.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is expected to attract major interest from visitors attending this month’s Retail Solutions 2004 exhibition and seminar, which is being held from June 8 to 10 at Birmingham’s NEC.
Shell contractors Hoyer UK and JW Suckling Transport have taken delivery of more than 70 new Heil articulated trailers for use on the oil company’s contract. Manufactured to ADR specifications, the equipment includes
National refrigeration and air-conditioning wholesaler Dean & Wood has been supplied with three OM Pimespo reach trucks and a four-directional narrow aisle truck, supplied by Forktruck Solutions, to meet requirements at its 50,000sq m
Designed specifically for use in a retail environment, the new two-tier Linshelf solution from Linpac Storage Systems provides cost-effective storage that maximises available height and fully uses cubic storage capacity.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) will be ready for adoption within supply chain infrastructure by 2005-6, but at current development rates, it will be 2013 and beyond before it is widely implemented at item-tagging level, according to AMR Research.
NYK Logistics (UK) Consumer & Retail is storing and distributing more than £100M of products a year on behalf of sit-up, the interactive-TV content provider. Through its bid-up.tv and price-drop.tv channels, broadcast on satellite, cable and
