Salmon Developments and NFU Mutual joint venture Salmon Harvester has sold the third and final unit at Freeway Park, Normanton, West Yorkshire, paving the way for a second phase of 11,890sq m.

PTS Plumbing, a leading distributor in the heating, plumbing and sanitaryware market, has opened its new distribution centre at Witton. The new 9,300sq m distribution centre enables the company to open more new branches.

Revlon’s new 8,547sq m distribution centre at Stone, Staffordshire is to being project managed by property specialist sbh.uk.

Third-party logistics company TDG handles the warehousing and distribution for the Early Learning Centre. In order to cope with ELC’s peak periods, TDG has swapped its manual paper-based system for a wireless data capture solution.

Spiralling transport costs can force companies to look seriously at their bottom line and consider oother alternatives. For NMHG, barges are the answer.

Having started out designing, building and running factories, logistics was not top of the career agenda for Argos’ supply chain director. So what changed?

The UK’s largest cement manufacturer, Lafarge Cement, has adopted an innovative ‘truck, track and trace’ system to enable its drivers to focus on driving and at the same time improve ‘real-time’ communications with its 9,000 customers.

ProLogis European Properties Fund (PEPF), part of distribution facilities and services provider ProLogis, has bought the 101,987sq m Harbor Park in Budapest.

Eden Park Developments, part of the Fiducia Group, has bought an 11.45 acre site near the A38 in Burton-on-Trent on which to build a speculative £15M 19,500sq m warehouse in a joint venture scheme with Northridge Capital.

Technological advances in communications and computing have revolutionised much of the service industry with the advent of Internet-based commerce enhancing this further. Why are logistics operations being so cautious to adopt technology?