Former chief executive of Deutsche Post Klaus Zumwinkel has been slapped with a two-year suspended jail sentence and a one million euro fine for tax evasion, according to press reports from Germany.

There are no two ways about it, operating a supply chain is a risky business and the longer the chain, the greater the risks. In recent weeks we have become all too aware of the dangers of a large buying organisation, such as a retailer, going out of

The Lloyd Fraser Group has won a £30 million, three-year contract renewal for the provision of transport services to Focus DIY.

Italian fashion company Macron has signed an agreement with Ceva Logistics to manage its warehousing.

Volvo Trucks has helped to float the latest fundraising venture by the RNLI’s Warwick Ladies’ Lifeboat Guild – a book of family-friendly recipes called “Granny To the Rescue!” It paid the £4,000 printing costs so that the entire proceeds from the initial

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.