High street retailer Primark has taken the former Ikea distribution depot on Huntingdon Road, Thrapston, Northamptonshire as part of its ongoing expansion plans.

Parcel delivery company City Link has taken a sub-lease on a modern warehouse at Silverstone Drive, Gallagher Business Park in Coventry from STP Group.

Sants Pharmaceutical Distributors, part of The Co-operative Group, has pre-let a 190,000 sq ft warehouse in Stoke on Trent.

Stoford Developments has started building work on a speculative distribution scheme in Yorkshire after being buoyed by the successful completion of a similar development in the East Midlands.

Gazeley and Blue Anchor Leisure have submitted an outline planning application to Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council for a 100 acre logistics site at Junction 4 of the M18 motorway next door to the West Moor Park development.

The North’s top logistics show is moving into a £34 million state-of-the-art exhibition hall at Doncaster to provide the ideal showcase for exhibiting the latest products in the industry.

Dramatic advances in technology are changing the way in which companies do logistics but perhaps the least appreciated is printer technology. Improvements in mobility, connectivity and user friendliness are opening up new opportunities in the supply chain

Lockheed Martin chose Manhattan Associates’ Transport Lifecycle Management (TLM) to improve its transport management processes. The system is designed to help Lockheed Martin maintain control of its network and make the right transport decisions based on

With logistics offering relatively low margins, investment in software can be difficult. Now that the economy is less stable than it has been in recent years, there’s a need for new solutions and software-as-a-service is an attractive alternative. Teijken

When French group Tourpargel, which specialises in home delivery of frozen food, bought Frigedoc (Agrigel brand) in 2003 it was decided to implement a common system for the whole group consisting of SAP for purchasing and supply and Savoye for its LM7 war