Supply chain management is a concept which is becoming more and more common and relevant to modern businesses. The chain begins with the simplest identifiable component, often raw materials, and finishes with the final product. In the Dasani case,

The Marks & Spencer Lifestore store was launched in Gateshead last February. It is a brand new retail experience based on the rituals of everyday life, rather than retail convention, and takes customers through nine worlds that respond directly to the way

Highstreet retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is currently trialling a new store concept designed to take advantage of the growing market of consumers buying products for the home. Called Lifestore, the pilot scheme centres on M&S’ Gateshead sto

Competitive price and superior service quality are key to unlocking greater share of clients’ logistics spend, a new report by independent market analyst Datamonitor reveals. Called European Logistics Provider End User Survey, it found that respondents we

Somerfield has recruited Grampian Country Transport (GCT) as its regional chill consolidator. The contract means that all volume produced in the load area for Somerfield will pass through GCT’s warehouse. The company will initially handle 1,200 pallets a

B&Q’s new distribution centre at the Redhouse Interchange, Doncaster, features one of the biggest floor slabs that has been designed and installed by Twintec Industrial Flooring.

Retail giant Redcats UK and Lynx Express have formed a commercial arrangement with the launch of Lynx@Home, a new home delivery service. Marking Lynx’s entry into the home delivery sector, the new service uses Redcats’ Courier Link home delivery courier n

The FTA is urging the Government to devise an alternative plan for moving freight off the roads now that there will be no backing for Central Railway’s Liverpool to Lille, France, project.

Seven Trent Property subsidiary DIRFT, has sold more than 90 acres of undeveloped ground at its 364-acre DIRFT Logistics Park, at J18 of the M1 in Northamptonshire, for an undisclosed sum to a joint venture company controlled by Rosemound Developments and

Overhead chain conveyor specialist Conveyors International has teamed up with German chain conveyor systems manufacturer Schierholz. The agreement enables Conveyors International to project the full range of Schierholz systems in the UK.