Like the paparazzi surrounding celebrities, agents and developers are crowding round the warehouse market in the southern part of the M1. And like the paparazzi, they are creating problems for themselves.

The whole of SladenAston’s 650,000 sq ft refurbishment in Doncaster is under offer to a fashion retailer.

Frontier Estates is rumoured to be close to buying the IKEA site at Grange Park, Northampton, for a sum believed to be around £600,000 per acre.

The opening of Bibby’s newly-completed 625,000 sq ft warehouse in Scunthorpe coincides with it winning a contract with convenience store group Nisa Today worth £200m.

Furniture recycling charity Green-Works has opened a new 32,000 sq ft warehouse in Wembley on the back of a major contract with Barclays Bank. The bank donated 2,500 tonnes of furniture for recycling following its move to a new headquarters in April.

MEPC has let an industrial/warehouse unit at Marston Gate, South Marston Park in Swindon to Honda Connectors.

Having management systems in place to handle that and deal with any problems is a key issue for companies.

At a recent event in Stoke-on-Trent, Witron unveiled plans for the future as well as describing its

A new warehouse complex for Sharp Interpack’s site at Aylesham in Kent has been fitted-out by Designed Storage with Hi-Lo’s Premierack storage.

The company has been in the UK market for many years supporting the operations of its parent Peugeot group and has been expanding its operations with third party customers so that its sales are now in the region of £200m.