The CIPS/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index for manufacturing hit its highest level since 1994 last month rising to 57.2

There is to be a very clear skills element to the government’s drive to a low carbon economy

Rail freight might have increased in popularity but is the infastructure there to support its growth? Lucy Tesseras reports

In south Yorkshire there are currently 22 big sheds available, both new and second-hand, but flexibility is the key for occupiers in the region. Liza Helps investigates

Budget retailer 99p Stores has secured ProLogis’ DC372 warehouse at ProLogis Park Pineham in Northamptonshire, as its new headquarters and national distribution centre.

New developed warehousing space is at its lowest in a decade, according to Gerald Eve’s latest Prime Logistics bulletin.

Consolidating stock at one national hub has enabled the pub chain to improve availability as well as cut deliveries.

As flexibility, short production runs and responsiveness to market demands become the survival factors for 2010, can global supply chains deliver performance as well as price? By NIck Allen

The need to inject capital into the supply chain more quickly has stepped up a notch in the past year, and with it has come the rise of an alternative funding structure – supply chain financing. Jessica Davies investigates.

Joining a third party logistics provider in the middle of a recession might reasonably be regarded as a baptism of fire, but Leigh Pomlett is now putting growth firmly back on the agenda. He talks to Malory Davies.