Vehicle manufacturer Toyota is using Linpac Material Handling’s purpose-designed, reusable packaging to achieve optimum protection for its diesel engines during transport.

Menlo Worldwide Technologies (MWT) is offering separate, stand-alone software solutions and technology services for businesses that have chosen to manage their own logistics operations. Menlo’s supply chain management IT solutions, including its industr

Surgical instruments manufacturer Becton Dickinson has ordered a further three Toyota forklift trucks fro Locators. This latest order brings Becton’s Toyota fleet to seven.

The Sector Group manufactures watches for brands such as Benetton, Sisley and Moschino. It has also expanded into the jewellery business with the Xenia brand, acquired during 2002.

Thornton & Ross, the pharmaceuticals manufacturer based at Linthwaite Laboratories near Huddersfield, has seen storage at its warehouse increase by a third through the delivery of three Narrow Aisle Flexi lift trucks and the installation of new Dexion

Somerset-based workwear supplier Wessex Textiles is replacing its IT systems with an integrated business management and information system – Xe-ERP – from XeBusiness. The system underpins the firm’s rapid rate of growth and will handle its Customer Rela

The Lakeland Limited story goes back almost 40 years when Sam Raynor’s parents set up a mail order business from their home in Windermere, selling polythene bags to local farmers for packing poultry.

No matter who you talk to, everyone is agreed that the UK lags way behind its European counterparts when it comes to the use of automated warehousing. There do not even appear to be any available statistics on the matter, with the Automated Materials Hand

Catalyst International is offering new software to better manage inventory and more closely align supply and demand. CatalystCommand Inventory Optimisation and CatalystCommand Demand Management automate the forecast-to-replenishment process. They provid

Overnight carrier Hellmann Overnight Logistics is using T@lecom’s Wireless Delivered solution across its entire UK fleet of 500 drivers following highly successful live tests at its depots nationwide. And Jan O’Hara, chief executive officer for T@lecom,