Standard Life Investment’s Select property und has entered a joint venture with Panattoni Development Company to speculatively develop a 50,000 sq m warehouse facility located in Lodz, Poland.
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Netherlands’ health and beauty retail company, Kruidvat, is to build a new automated warehouse and picking system (from Witron) in Heteren.
Banks are looking at new ways of financing the global supply-chain. Chris Lewis learns of some of the innovative techniques being introduced by the banking sector which can free-up working capital without needing formal title to the actual assets – they m
At the Shed Show last month Michael Samuels, EMEA strategy & business planning director at DHL Exel Supply Chain said that his company had been too consumer centric in the past when locating its warehouses across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Regulation weighs heavily on logistics operators who choose France – and its geographic position in Europe may not make it a central attraction – but with five of Europe’s 15 major ports and a logistics market valued at around €120 billion, France has ple
Leading consumer packaged goods companies are collaborating through the Global Upstream Initiative to design a process model and supporting XML message standards which will greatly aid supply chain integration.
‘Our organisation has spent four or five years trying to define and develop what we mean by sustainable development in the supply chain, and we’ve broken the task into three areas – society, the environment, and economics,’ says Mark Barnett, chief operat
Many businesses preparing for the implementation of WEEE have overlooked the important role – and potentially significant cost – logistics could play in bringing the new legislation into force, explains Paul James
s developers prepare for the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) to kick-in, some confusion is arising over the different targets set by individual EU Member States and to what degree each has met the EPBD. But companies such as Wal Mart and
Truck manufacturer Volvo has joined The Global Round table on Climate Change, which brings together more than 100 high-level stakeholders from around the world —
