Pallet distribution network PalletFORCE has extended its central hub in Lichfield, Staffordshire, to meet its continued high level of growth.
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Wickes Building Supplies has taken a ten-year lease – at a rent of about £7 per sq ft – on a 12,077sq m distribution warehouse on Maximate, Maxted Road, Hemel Hempstead, from the Co-Operative Insurance Society (CIS).
Equiton Industrial Partnership (EIP), the Limited Partnership joint venture between Brixton, the Equitable Life Assurance Society and Edger Investments (a wholly owned subsidiary of Prudential Assurance Company), has sold Units 9-13 Hambridge Lane, Newbur
Slough Estates has announced the first wave of lettings at its newly re-branded West London portfolio, ‘theLHR.com’. Six lettings have been completed totalling 2,511sq m of warehousing/manufacturing space.
Focus Logistics has selected Portsmouth for its new warehouse and distribution centre, which is one of the largest commercial lettings in the city for two years. Commercial property consultant Vail Williams and joint agent King Sturge have let unit 1 Inte
West Midlands-based developer Chase Midland is set to undertake one of the largest speculative industrial schemes to be started in the Coventry area within the foreseeable future.
Distribution companies are expected to flock to a new development on one of the South coast’s most prominent warehouse sites – Swift Distribution Park, which fronts the M27 and M271 at Nursling near Southampton.
Kingfisher’s DIY retailing arm, B&Q, is expecting its new £65M, 74,400sq m semi-automated distribution centre at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, to open in late 2005.
The latest King Sturge survey of available industrial and distribution floorspace indicates that the recent increase in availability may be “finally at, or nearing its peak”.
The Mezzanine Floor Company has beaten off stiff competition to win a £1M contract from Dürr, the UK subsidiary of the Stuttgart-based multinational technology giant, to provide platforms to be used in the manufacture of the wings.
