Boots is to reveal the results of a year-long project to revolutionise its shelf filling processes. The project is expected to save the company £80M in efficiency savings.

Temperature-controlled Culina Logistics has sponsored a spoof supply chain website designed to ‘ease the stress of today’s logistics and supply chain industry’.

Irish and UK forwarding and logistics independent TwoWay Vanguard has appointed Jim Armour as its new managing director.

The property market that serves the UK logistics sector is based primarily on the concept of developers building properties that they think will meet the needs of an occupier and then a business coming along and leasing that space.

According to GVA Grimley the Midlands industrial / distribution market is seeing continued growth, with units of 18,600sq m plus being built. This activity is pushing another wave of speculative development.

Martin Butterly has been supplied with a BestHall Tension Membrane building by Collinson for its Drogheda Port site to increase on-quay storage, improve efficiency and reduce logistical problems.

London Clancy has sold the leaseholds of Unit 18 and 19 on Southampton’s Longbridge Industrial Estate to Guessens Company.

Slough Estates is making headway in providing on-site amenities at Heywood Distribution Park in Greater Manchester. A 465sq m building, accommodating an Aleef Newsagents and convenience store, is almost complete and the Greggs Bakery is being fitted out.

Matthews & Goodman is advising Pirelli on the sale of a site on Wrexham Industrial Estate.

Eden Park Developments, part of the Fiducia Group, has received planning permission to create a £30M industrial and distribution park and business complex at Grange Park in Northampton in a joint venture with Shepherd Developments.