WH Smith has increased outbound productivity by 20 per cent at its Dunstable distribution centre, after installing a sortation system from SDI Greenstone.

Bertram Books, a UK book wholesaler is using a void fill cushion from Easypack on a conveyor sorting system.

With land values continuing to rise and labour becoming more expensive and harder to find, will 2007 herald a golden age for warehouse automation? James Falkner reports.

TDG’s chief executive has gone from logistics newcomer to veteran in just seven years. Now he is using that experience to set the group on a new growth route. Malory Davies reports.

British Waterways is investing £18.

The planning application is split into two main parts: The Site Preparation Planning Application and The Olympic and Legacy Transformation Planning Application.

Stratford in East London is about to become Europe’s biggest building site as plans for the Olympic Park take shape. But, says Malory Davies, the logistics of keeping the site supplied with building materials could prove to be a bigger challenge than the

Channel and Mobile Solutions has launched a proof of delivery system aimed at the courier and logistics industry.

Kiabi, the French value-clothing retailer, has rolled out Manhattan’s Warehouse Management for Open Systems across its distribution centres at Mâcon, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Dourges and Madrid in Spain.

Agility Systems has won a contract to supply software to the UK offices of Henry Schein, a distributor of healthcare products and services to office-based practitioners in Europe and North America.