Arla Foods is set to start using Gray & Adams variable deck trailers, which allow the company to increase load capacity of palletised milk deliveries by 50 per cent.
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Peterhead-based Thistle Seafoods has signed a new distribution deal with frozen and chilled food consolidator Reed Boardall.
The CIPS/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index for manufacturing hit its highest level since 1994 last month rising to 57.2
Consolidating stock at one national hub has enabled the pub chain to improve availability as well as cut deliveries.
Budget retailer 99p Stores has secured ProLogis’ DC372 warehouse at ProLogis Park Pineham in Northamptonshire, as its new headquarters and national distribution centre.
There is to be a very clear skills element to the government’s drive to a low carbon economy
Diesel engines might be getting cleaner and greener, but increasingly the technology is being challenged by the new generation of batteries, fuel cells and hydrogen hybrids. Malory Davies reports
Joining a third party logistics provider in the middle of a recession might reasonably be regarded as a baptism of fire, but Leigh Pomlett is now putting growth firmly back on the agenda. He talks to Malory Davies.
The need to inject capital into the supply chain more quickly has stepped up a notch in the past year, and with it has come the rise of an alternative funding structure – supply chain financing. Jessica Davies investigates.
As flexibility, short production runs and responsiveness to market demands become the survival factors for 2010, can global supply chains deliver performance as well as price? By NIck Allen
