Dematic Management, along with investment group Triton, have taken over the shares in the worldwide Dematic business from Siemens AG.

Woodward Foodservice has won a three-year contract worth £12m to supply fresh, frozen, chilled and ambient food to all 230 Little Chef outlets across the UK.

Northern Foods is to sell off its distribution arm, NFT Distribution, as part of a major restructuring which will see it disposing of businesses that represent 40 per cent of group revenue.

Kwik Save has awarded the UK warehouse and distribution contract for its ambient and frozen goods to TDG in a deal worth more than £9 million a year.

Following a long period of stagnation, industrial rents across the North West are increasing. That’s the conclusion of property adviser DTZ.

It’s a tough job but someone has to do it – deliver goods in our major cities with the traffic jams and waiting restriction at the delivery point. Malory Davies looks at the measures that can be taken to make life a bit easier in the urban jungle.

Ebuyer’s web site offers customers more than 15,000 products ranging from plasma TVs and laptops to computer components and software.

The new system handles as much in one day as the previous system handled in a week.

Kuehne & Nagel has become a major player in the contract logistics market with the acquisition of ACR. Now North West Europe chief Peter Ulber wants to create end-to-end supply chains.

Eliminating waste to increase profit is not rocket science, says Tim Kershaw, chief executive at supply chain management consultancy Libra Europe.