High street retailer Dixons has upgraded its Stevenage national distribution centre (NDC) with a Vanriet UK store delivery sortation system to ensure that its stores’ shelves are fully stocked, particularly at peak times.

Central heating radiators manufacturer Caradon Stelrad has awarded a contract to distributor Impact Toyota for the supply of materials handling equipment to its Mexborough site.

Floor flatness has a significant impact on efficiency and safety when materials are handled by forklift trucks. Although the Concrete Society’s Technical Report TR34, published in 1988, was a pioneering step and contains the principal

Fruit importer Jamaica Producers Fruit Distributors (JPFD) is seeing “greatly enhanced” quality control now that it is using i2 Mobile Solutions technology within its banana operation. According to JPFD, the UK trading arm for Jamaica Producers Group’s

Scotland-based food group Baxters has selected Toyota Industrial Equipment (TIE) to help keep its production lines moving “like clockwork” – with about 400 cans a minute coming off the finishing line, an efficient, reliable fleet is essential to ensure

To the Commission of the European Communities. Final Report. Available in October 2003

Students of Darmstadt University of Technology take second place in the Logistics Case Competition in the US

In Rome, as the temperatures soared to 42°C outside (but with good air-conditioning inside), the European Certification Board for Logistics held its first Assessors Workshop.

Logistics is about doing simple things well, says the IT and logistics director of Nisa-Today’s

A new distribution centre is helping shoe retailer Brantano achieve consistently impressive growth. An investment in automated processes is paving the way to the opening of 20 retailing outlets a year.