James Timms Transport has taken a 62,500 sq ft distribution and storage building at St Modwen’s 24-acre Quedgeley East estate, Glouceste, on a three-year lease at rent of £124,000 a year.

Gladman Developments has completed the main phase of construction on two distribution warehouses of 140,000 sq ft (G-Space 140) and 58,000 sq ft (G-Space 60) on a 12.11-acre site at Saxham Business Park, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Glass merchant and manufacturer Ultra Tough has taken a 15-year lease at a rent of over £600,000 a year, for 102,219 sq ft of space at Falcon Property Trust’s Capital Connect warehouse in Welham Green.

Child car seat manufacturer Britax has secured Colesbourne Asset Management’s 94,994 sq ft Andover303 scheme on East Portway

Ceva Logistics has been awarded a contract by NHS Scotland National Procurement to deliver consumables to hospitals in Scotland.

To find success with global supply chains, companies need to integrate operations both vertically and horizontally, a new briefing paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit has warned

Achilles is launching a carbon footprinting programme aimed at supply chains in the UK utilities sector.

Seafield Logistics has outsourced the majority of its health and safety operations to a firm of specialists

Reed Boardall has bought twelve 40-pallet double-deck trailers with lifting decks that use solar panels

Companies are launching themselves into global sourcing on the hope of securing lower unit costs for manufactured goods without necessarily fully understanding the risks involved.