Anyone can store goods – but it’s retrieving them efficiently that sets the gold standard, says Johanna Parsons

Stobart Group has completed the sale of a 51 per cent stake in its transport and distribution business to DBay Advisors

Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances has awarded a contract to Roadways Container Logistics to manage shipments directly to clients including John Lewis and Curry’s; as well as undertaking a “drop and swap” operation from UK ports to BSH’s Kettering distribu

The Co-operative is to switch from using its own nestable crates for fresh produce suppliers to using IFCO’s foldable returnable plastic containers

Prologis is to speculatively develop in the Heathrow area, hot on the heels of SEGRO announcing a 98,780 sq ft of speculative development at Heathrow

Property company SEGRO is to speculatively develop 92,780 sq ft of warehouse space at phase two of Stockley Close near Heathrow in West London

For this year only, freight transport and logistics exhibition Multimodal is co-locating with the CV Show at the NEC

The commercial vehicle market might have been distorted by the arrival of the Euro 6 legislation, but it promises a feast of new truck technology at the CV Show

The omni-channel revolution is all too often seen as the death of bricks and mortar – but in reality it is a move towards greater diversity in the retail marketplace. But, warns Johanna Parsons, with diversity comes complexity

Logistics outsourcing has had its share of bad press over the years with people saying they’re outsourcing, but not seeing the benefits. But success depends on how you set up the contract, delegates heard at the Logistics Manager Summit at Sandown Park