Perhaps one of the greatest lessons to come out of the recession has been that flexibility and frequent updates to the planning process are critical to the commercial success of the enterprise. Sales and operations planning holds the key.

Retailers are facing challenges and opportunities, both in the way they serve their customers and how they interface with suppliers. Nick Allen asks, what are the winning scenarios?

Information technology is all too often the elephant in the room, but retail market specialist Penelope Ody thinks it might be time to think small.

The only “EU 15″members with lower productivity than us are Greece, Spain and Portugal, and look where they are.

The government is funding a new approach to logistics apprenticeships, with the creation of organisations to employ the apprentices and hire them out to “host employers”.

With no speculative development currently in the pipeline, is renewed interest being given to good quality second-hand stock? Lucy Tesseras investigates.

With immediately available modern space dwindling in the Golden Triangle, is the North Midlands and South Yorkshire the answer? Liza Helps takes a close look.

The 41,250 sq ft former Rank Hovis McDougall premises on Bermuda Park in Nuneaton, Warwickshire has been let to Ralph Coleman International on a new ten-year lease at a headline rent of £176,500 a year equating to £4.28 per sq ft.

American medical supplies manufacturer Medline has taken developer Cantt Pak’s 132,000 sq ft Manor Point warehouse in Runcorn.

Dart Group, parent company of Fowler Welch Coolchain, has taken developer Segro’s 500,000 sq ft The Hub distribution facility in Heywood Distribution Park, Greater Manchester.