Business mail delivery company DX Network Services has taken a sub-lease on Alcatel Lucent Telecom’s surplus 38,607 sq ft warehouse in Livingstone.

As British MPs contemplate the unwelcome prospect of decamping from the splendour of the Palace of Westminster to a near by building while building work is undertaken on the mid-nineteenth century structure, construction logistics comes very much to mind.

Since 1946, when J.W. Glidewell began his distribution business with a GMC panel truck in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Glidewell Distributing has had one mission: to help sellers of high- and small-ticket consumables increase sales and profit. In that time,
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Hot on the heels of the news that St Modwen has sold the Antalis unit for nearly £2 million is the news that the company is developing a further 80,000 sq ft of speculative space at its 55 acre Access 18 scheme in Avonmouth.

Up to 500 jobs could eventually be created at book retailer Waterstones’ 157,500 sq ft new warehouse in Burton-upon-Trent.

Hong Kong-based power tools manufacturer Ryobi has taken Oxfordshire’s biggest speculative building the 167,409 sq ft ProLogis Park Didcot on Purchas Road.

Electrical retailer Comet has secured a pre –let ona 385,000 sq ft warehouse at Canmoor Developments and Kenmore’s 14.75-acre Arrow Park scheme on Edinburgh Way, Harlow.

Lambert Smith Hampton and Knight Frank are marketing the 89,412 sq ft former Royal Mail warehouse on South Marston Park, Swindon.

Logistics company iForce has taken Stoford Developments and Terrace Hill Group’s 237,444 sq ft warehouse known as Redd 42 on Ravensbank Business Park in Redditch.

Forth Ports is working on a masterplan for a whisky distribution park at the port of Grangemouth on the Forth. A layout for 1.6m sq ft of warehousing has been approved.