It is difficult to engage employers in a skills development discussion when their sole focus is either on the survival of their company or on survival of their job, or both. However, as I keep on saying, now is precisely the time to give skills developmen

The difficulties being faced on the UK high street have triggered aftershocks up and down the supply chain. Yet despite the casualty pile-up the news for retail supply chain professionals is by no means bad. The dynamics of the retail market are changing

We are now keen to begin actively marketing the warehouse, offices and hotel and feel that this strategically located site has a great deal to offer occupiers.

Obviously it is a buyer’s market and one would expect this surplus, coupled with the government’s insistence on Empty Rates, to lead to a drop in rent levels. However, Owen Holder of Knight Frank says there is a note of caution. “As yields have moved out

Companies considering either a new-build project or an extension should be able to negotiate keener prices, according to Chris Friendship of warehouse and distribution property specialist sbh.

SCA Packaging has taken Barberry Developments’ recently refurbished Stanbridge Building in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. The building, which totals 112,900 sq ft, was let on a new 15-year lease at an agreed rent of £4.25 per sq ft. Savills advised Barbe

Newspaper and magazine wholesaler Smiths News has invested £1m in a new distribution centre in South Wales.

Residents are up in arms about a planning application for a 490,000 sq ft warehouse submitted by developer Gazeley in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent.

Lambert Smith Hampton is marketing a 30,000 sq ft chilled warehouse located just off the A259 linking Chichester to Bognor Regis.

If Heathrow Airport fails to get approval for a third runway it will put the UK at a real commercial disadvantage, according to the Freight Transport Association. Christopher Snelling, head of global supply chain policy, said: “A ‘no’ to a third runway wo