Retailer John Lewis has agreed a 50,000 sq ft pre-let with IM Properties for a customer delivery hub at Solihull Business Park in the West Midlands

It’s reckoned to be worth $1,000,000,000,000 globally. David Cameron, the British prime minister said it would be worth £600 million to the UK alone

Online shopping is driving growth in transport employment with a growth outlook for the last quarter of 2013 at +7 per cent, compared to +2 per cent in the previous year, according to Manpower

Woodway UK has taken on 28,000 sq ft of extra warehousing space on the Earls Barton Industrial Estate in Northampton dedicated to servicing multichannel retailers

Dean Devasia has been appointed as global chief information officer at Geodis Wilson, where he will also join the Freight Management Board

Asda Logistics chose BITO Storage Systems, to install a Smart Slide shelving at the company’s clothing depot in Lymedale, Staffordshire

arvato Healthcare has entered a partnership with Swiss pre-wholesale company, Voigt Industrie Service, to offer its customers an integrated solution for the final-mile delivery of medication in Switzerland

David Hallam has been named as the Co-operative Food’s driver of the year at the company’s annual competition, which it says recognises those who go the extra mile to improve store service and efficiency

The US Federal Maritime Commission has voted to ask for additional information from the parties to the proposed P3 Alliance

Maru International has received its first Cat lift trucks from Impact Handling in the UK, after trialling machines from four different manufacturers