Property developer Gazeley has bought a major new development site in Sheffield. The site was purchased from Corus and Outokumpo Stainless, which retains ownership of the adjacent site.

Innovate Logistics will complete the former British Coal site’s redevelopment after purchasing the last plot of land. Bassetlaw District Council has granted planning permission for Innovate Logistics and GMI Property Company to develop a 13,020sq m

The shortage of land supply and increasing costs of locating in the South-east and Midlands, along with growing concerns over the availability of labour, are driving occupiers to look further afield, dispersing the spread of distribution facilities throug

NYK Logistics (UK) Consumer & Retail, formerly New Wave Logistics, has invested in a new warehouse at Avonmouth. The £170,000 project provides the company, which is part of the NYK Logistics group, with 5,110sq m of storage space, including 465sq m of rac

The application may be large or small but the principle in order picking remains the same – keep it simple. Here is an analysis of how two different technologies have been used to best effect, one at German auto parts distributor, ATU and the other at UK

‘We are so poor in Europe, there is a complete lack of understanding of logistics,’ says the European distribution director for Columbia Sportswear Europe

The spares and support supply chain has, until recently, been regarded as a painful cost rather than a profit centre. Now the management and technological tools to make the transformation are coming on line.

Consultants and IT services company, LogicaCMG, has undertaken a study – covering 50 companies in six regions – into the adoption of radio frequency identification technology in European companies. The results point to a very different approach to tacklin

With the established European market showing few signs of a substantive upturn, logistics companies are pursuing their growth strategies in faster developing regions. Central and Eastern Europe has been one of the main focal points for investment followin

These days, nobody can afford to wait until the end of the contract to find out what went wrong. Web technology can help close this treacherous information gap