Bringing new drugs to market is a very expensive business: typically it can cost over €500 million and – given time limitations on patents – the pharmaceuticals company then has just 5-10 years or so to recoup its investment and make a profit for most the

Pundits and politicians talk about the need for joined-up thinking, and ERP vendors and systems integrators are equally enthisiastic. But just how joined-up are our supply chains in reality?

Spare a thought for Moir Lockhead, chief executive of Britain’s biggest bus and rail company First Group.

Knapp UK is opening a service centre at Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire to meet the needs of its growing service operations.

Tim Harms has been promoted to technical services director at automotive logistics specialist Walon UK.

When writing this column I have been known once or twice to draw attention to the relatively low levels of public funding attracted by the logistics industry (eight per cent of the workforce, 3.5 per cent public funding share) when compared with construct

With high value products and truly international supply chains, high technology industries need to look beyond traditional warehousing and distribution systems. Jessica Davies looks at the career opportunities for logisticians.

Liza Helps investigates rumours that we are seeing the end of the five year lease/break clause in the wake of the recent credit crunch.

The region around Bristol and over in South Wales has seen some unprecedented activity in the last few months with a plethora of developers converging to snap up available acres. Liza Helps takes a look at the phenomenon…

We may have seen it coming since the Budget in March, but the 2p/litre rise in fuel duty that came into force in early October has still gone down like a lead balloon with private motorists and commercial vehicle operators alike – and if the government ex