Purple Foodservice Solutions has won a contract with the Ministry of Defence, to distribute its global food supplies, worth £150m per year.

A team from MAN ERF UK and S&B Training, have returned from a two week trip to Nigeria, where they have been overseeing the construction of motorcycle ambulance trailers.

A project manager is only going to ask for decisions to be made – so why bother? Liza Helps gets the answers….

Earlier this year Gladman Developments acquired a 33.5 acre site at J4 M8 Distribution Park near Livingston and announced plans to build Scotland’s largest speculative distribution warehouse development.

A speculative boom means occupiers are set to be spoilt for choice, however there is a sting in the tail. Liza Helps reports on the latest “gold rush”.

In one of the biggest warehouse lettings in Andover in six years, kitchenware maker Le Creuset has taken 60,000 sq ft of distribution and office space within SSI Schaefer’s headquarters building on the Walworth Road Industrial Estate.

We’ve been looking at three sectors that keep the British economy ‘singing’ – Manufacturing (great past, uncertain future), Construction (building for the future) and Logistics (enabling both the others to function at all).

Scotland’s warehouse development is not limited solely to the area between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Prupim (Prudential Property Investment Managers) is set to announce the first tenant has taken a 100,000 sq ft warehouse at its Hub development in Birmingham.

Gazeley is to launch Felixstowe Portside – a “port-centric” logistics park development, supported by the Port of Felixstowe.