Bibby Distribution’s parent company has bought a 51 per cent stake in the Costcutter retail group in a deal estimated to be worth about £100m.
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TDG has recruited four people to its solutions design and business development teams.
Freight forwarder Panalpina has put together a portcentric distribution system for a major retail client.
Nissan is buying Swedish warehouse equipment manufacturer Atlet through its subsidiary, Nissan Forklift Europe.
Hospital Metalcraft, manufacturers of the Bristol Maid range of medical furniture and equipment, has chosen Masternaut’s web based vehicle tracking and mobile resource management service, to boost visibility of its mobile operations.
Environmentally-friendly heating company Energy Crops is running its new Mercedes six-wheeler on BioDiesel.
Turners (Soham) has started fitting NECK-IT units to its vehicles to help tackle the increasing problem of fuel theft from commercial vehicles.
Once considered the domain of eco-warriors, such as ‘Swampy’ and Prince Charles, environmental awareness has, over the past year, been catapulted to the forefront of main-stream thinking – we are now all expected to be ‘greener’ than ‘green’.
Watching the transcontinental trucks thunder down the motorway focusses the mind on all that burning diesel. Can’t we use trains more?
With transport costs rising and green issues increasingly on the agenda. The FMCG sector needs to adopt a more collaborative approach to solving the sector’s distribution challenges, says Hugh Basham
