After four years ABS Industrial Resources has secured an 83,000 sq ft warehouse at Adwick Park, Manvers

Floor covering company Headlam has taken a 41,750 sq ft warehouse at Centurion Properties and SWIP’s 14 acre Kingsbury Business Park at Minworth

The South West generally has the lowest availability ratio of Grade-A buildings in the UK, with a shortage of supply of good quality facilities going into 2012, according to property consultancy DTZ

Trimble has appointed PeopleNet founder Ron Konezny as general manager of its worldwide Transport and Logistics Division

Daxbourne International, a supplier of hair pieces and wigs needed to bolster its supply chain operation to increase capacity, after growing its business through retail, wholesale, e-commerce, mail order, and TV shopping channels

With automotive manufacturing on the rise warehouse space in the West Midlands is attracting a premium. Liza Helps investigates

Occupiers looking for space along the M1/A1 South will have to work hard, says Liza Helps.

Targeting resources at the right locations is a key issue for Skills for Logistics

Johanna Parsons writes: Recruiting staff into logistics roles is not always the easiest of tasks, but now there is an innovative scheme from the Prince’s Trust, Get into Logistics, which offers targeted schemes to help disadvantaged youngsters develop car

Comedian Alun Cochrane presided over a dramatic evening at the Park Lane Hilton in London as 70 of Europe’s leading companies battled it out for the prestigious European Supply Chain Excellence Awards. Lucy Tesseras, Johanna Parsons and Nick Allen report