Investors have committed more than £40m to develop a 69,677 sq m (750,000 sq ft) warehouse in Doncaster, which has yet to secure an end user.

Lane Group, advised by Atisreal, has sold its distribution warehouse at Garanor Way, Royal Portbury Docks, Bristol to Westbury Property Fund for £3.95 million. It has leased back the 38,405 sq ft (3,568 sq m) property on a 20-year lease at a rent of £307,

According to King Sturge’s latest UK Industrial and Distribution Floorspace Today survey, speculative development of industrial property in the UK is at its highest level for five years and large distribution facilities account for over 70 per cent of it.

Boultbee Group in association with Schroders, is opening of a 7,936 sq m (85,422 sq ft) speculatively built £22 million warehouse/industrial unit called Zenith 2, at Junction 6 Industrial Estate, Witton.

Opus Land and Arlington Property Investors are set to increase the size of their Opus Nine development in the Black Country following the £2m plus acquisition of an adjacent 3.44ha (8.5-acre) plot owned by garden tool maker Spear & Jackson.

Developer JF Finnegan has been selected as preferred developer by RDA Yorkshire Forward for the 6.72ha (16.6 acre) Beighton colliery site,

St Modwen is seeking planning consent for a 139,350 sq m (1.5 million sq ft) scheme on a 40.47ha (100 acre) plot within the 242.81ha (600 acres) it acquired from Corus in 2004 for £17.5m at Llanarwen, Newport, South Wales.

With the increasing cost and difficulty of setting up distribution centres in traditional areas, should supply chain professionals be looking towards ports to take on an enhanced role in the supply chain? James Falkner looks at what schemes are currently

Running a distribution network of this size efficiently demands a heavy reliance on technology. Each publication has an EAN code and a two digit supplement code that holds important information on the publication issue and needs to be captured on arrival.

It seems obvious to say that family-owned companies like working with other family-owned companies. But chief executive Theo de Pencier has made use of that to fuel Bibby distribution’s rapid growth over the past few years. now it is turning into a big co