Nowadays, fewer and fewer companies hold stock and product reserves on site, as this can often tie up critical cash requirements.

Rotex Europe has moved to a new, purpose-built site on the Whitehouse Vale Industrial Estate, off the M56 near Warrington. The company, which supplies screening, feeding and conveyor equipment, needed an extended warehousing area and an improved

Logistics provider Yearsley Cold Storage and Distribution is investing £5M to add a 47,000cu m cold storage and chilled unit at its Heywood head office in the North-west.

Headlam Group is expanding its existing 3,720sq m facility at the Eurocentral distribution park in Scotland by a further 1,860sq m. The company was one of the first tenants at Eurocentral, which is located between Edinburgh and Glasgow at the heart of Sco

Henderson Global Investors which, in partnership with Scottish Capital Group, bought the former Motorola building at Bathgate 12 months ago has substantially transformed the building and relaunched it as The Pyramids Business Park.

Parkfield Projects has finished a £2M design and build project to provide a new chilled distribution centre for Corby Chilled Distribution (CCD) at Newark, Nottinghamshire.

In a hotel meeting room in Amsterdam the ProLogis European project management group are holding their quarterly meeting. The group currently has 14 members, representing seven different nationalities, and their skills range from architect, civil and mecha

APC Overnight has moved to a new hub at Essington, near Cannock, to accommodate its rapid expansion. It is the fourth time that the parcels company has moved to larger premises in nine years.

The fact that 56,795sq m of industrial parks are either now built or under construction in the Segensworth area demonstrates that developers are confident to build speculatively along the M27 corridor, says commercial property consultant Vail Williams. Ac

Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is letting its 34,446sq m distribution centre (RDC) on Shire Park, Worcester, from October. Located near to J6 and J7 of the M5, centre’s letting is being handled through sole agent Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker,