Carpet and floor covering retailer Carpetright has consolidated all its cutting and distribution facilties into one location at Gazeley and Standard Life Investments’s 492,000 sq ft Ultrabox logistics facility in Purfleet.

Worldwide Magazine Distribution has installed a pick to light system.

The introduction of road pricing to manage the demand for road space is a necessity and an inevitability, Richard Turner, chief executive of the Freight Transport Association, told delegates to the association’s summit meeting in London today.

Lidl is to build its eighth UK distribution centre at the Aycliffe Industrial Estate, Newton Aycliffe in County Durham.

Wrenbridge is to develop a 126,000 sq ft speculative warehouse on a 7 acre site just off the M6 Toll Road.

TDG is extending its chemical business to Spain with the £21m takeover of Doman SA and its related company Ferrer Logistica SL.

Leading consumer packaged goods companies are collaborating through the Global Upstream Initiative to design a process model and supporting XML message standards which will greatly aid supply chain integration.

Banks are looking at new ways of financing the global supply-chain. Chris Lewis learns of some of the innovative techniques being introduced by the banking sector which can free-up working capital without needing formal title to the actual assets – they m

Regulation weighs heavily on logistics operators who choose France – and its geographic position in Europe may not make it a central attraction – but with five of Europe’s 15 major ports and a logistics market valued at around €120 billion, France has ple

Netherlands’ health and beauty retail company, Kruidvat, is to build a new automated warehouse and picking system (from Witron) in Heteren.