Manor Fresh has awarded NFT a two-year contract to distribute fresh produce to Marks and Spencer.
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Christian Salvesen and Turkish freight forwarder Ulustrans are forming a strategic alliance transporting goods between Turkey and the rest of Europe.
TNT is piloting the use of biofuel in its delivery vehicles in India.
Agility is set to buy LEP International Pty Ltd, an Australian freight forwarder and LEP International (NZ) Ltd in New Zealand.
The last 50 metres between the stockroom and a retailer’s shelf remains one of the supply chain’s biggest challenges and contributes to problems of ‘high cost’ and ‘low availability’. Initiatives from the IGD and ECR have resulted in workable standards, b
Many ambitious, medium-sized companies – especially in distribution, manufacturing and retail – with designs on stepping up a weight are challenged on how best to go about it. Managers must ensure that processes and systems are aligned to deliver efficien
‘We don’t have too many direct logistics problems,’ says Birgitte Stalder-Olsen.
Winning the hearts and minds of customers should be central to any retailer’s forward strategy, say Daniel Bagge and Keith Burgess. Research indicates that 79 per cent of customers will actively commit to a deeper relationship after a satisfying experienc
Significant challenges face the future of supply chains – as the sourcing of goods from low-cost economies increase logistics costs as a proportion of the cost of goods sold and as ‘green’ retailers move to develop wholly sustainable supply chains. Solu
As Tesco commits to carbon labelling, Carrefour sets up an ‘Environment club’ and M&S pledges to spend €300m on being carbon neutral by 2012, the stakes are riding high to secure the moral high ground in the battle for green consumers. But in these unchar
