Southern forklift suppliers On3 and Champion have both been awarded the rights to exclusively distribute Doosan-Daewoo FLTs in their respective regions. Korean company Doosan originally paid £1.7Bn for the Daewoo company.

At the beginning of 2004, supply chain provider Wincanton took over P&O’s bonded warehouse operation in Greenford, Middlesex. Since then, there has been a new spring in the depot’s step, as Wincanton has undertaken a lot of inward investment.

Innovate Logistics has unveiled a £6M high-tech development of its storage and distribution centre in Dudley to help steel producer Corus provide faster and more accurate deliveries to its UK customers.

Supply chain specialist Gist is expanding its primary business into Europe having bought G Van Dongen Holdings, a European temperature-controlled transport operator comprising of seven companies based in the Netherlands and Spain.

Globalisation is a factor which is continuing to affect the location of industrial facilities in Yorkshire and the North-east.

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.