n Worldwide Fruit, which supplies top class fruit all year round to UK high street retailers, is using Jungheinrich ERE 20 ride-on pallet trucks at its packing and distribution complex at Spalding, Lincolnshire. The 17 ERE 20s, on long-term contract hire,

n Home furnishings retailer Ikea has installed mobile shelving at its distribution centre located at Armthorpe, near Doncaster, which has enabled it to save up to 50% of floor space. Supplied by Linpac Storage Systems, the shelving is being used for archi

Companies exhibiting at Logistics Link 2004 were so impressed by the quality of attendees that many have already reserved stands for Logistics Manager’s first ever Logistics Link North, being held at Doncaster Racecourse on September 22 and 23, 200

Toyota Industrial Equipment, with annual revenues in excess of approximately £2.2Bn, is claiming to be the world’s number one supplier of materials handling products and services with a global market share of more than 20%.

British industrial and logistics locations are among the most expensive in Europe with London remaining at the top of the table according to research by international property adviser DTZ, which employs more than 6,550 staff at 125 offices in 33 countries

Fullers Logistics, the key logistics partner to Masterfoods’ (formerly Mars Confectionery) site in Slough, has awarded a major contract to integrated materials handling and storage equipment company Locators to supply a range of Toyota industrial equipmen

Derrick Potter, board member of the Rail Freight Group and chairman of the Potter Group, a leading independent UK road and rail logistics service provider, has welcomed a new incentive to boost rail freight announced by the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA).

Associated British Ports (ABP) has reached a 25-year agreement with DFDS Tor Line, the Danish roll-on/roll-off shipping line, to develop a new £35M riverside terminal for unit-load traffic at the Port of Immingham. The new facility will be a 200,000sq m r

Unipart Logistics, part of the Unipart Group of Companies, has won a ten-year contract to manage a second major Boots distribution centre. The contract is part of Boots’ program of improvements to its supply chain and will result in 300 new jobs being cre

RedPrairie Corporation, a leader in global supply chain technology solutions, has bought supply chain execution provider LIS. Operating under the RedPrairie name, the enlarged group projects 2004 revenues of US$130M and has more than 600 people from offic