Marcus Bennett has been appointed as Kuehne + Nagel’s new national manager UK, where he will succeed Yngve Ruud, who is moving to the company’s western Europe headquarters in Hamburg

Jungheinrich has invested £6 million in its fleet of forklift trucks and other handling products it offers for short term rental, bringing the total number of models within the fleet to 4,000

Waitrose is set to open a multi million pound e-commerce grocery depot in Coulsdon, South London, which will more than double the number of online delivery slots available in the capital

Parcel company Yodel has consolidated its operations so that they are now all managed through Yodel Delivery Network Ltd

I don’t know about you, but if I had a massive van fleet operating from 214 depots delivering 10.5 million items a week, I would be thinking about ways of selling that service to other people…

Tuko Logistics, a grocery storage, assortment, purchasing and logistics service provider in Finland, ordered Cimcorp 3D Shuttle to increase the efficiency of its logistics operation

The Co-op Group is one of the leading grocery retailers in Switzerland, with an annual revenue of some 27.8 billion Swiss Francs. Its retail stock comprises about 70,000 items across many categories

Discount retailer TJ Morris, trading as Home Bargains was close to reaching a “critical mass” when it recruited SSI Schaefer to help to increase the bulk storage capacity and picking at its distribution centre

Retail is changing with consumers increasingly taking up online options for home delivery and click and collect. Johanna Parsons finds that retailers are increasingly looking to automation to pave the way to serving these different channels

Swapping the south for the north is proving highly profitable in supply chain terms. Liza Helps investigates