Tight stock control helped Debenhams boost pre-tax profit in the 18 weeks to 3rd January despite a drop in like-for-like sales of 3.5 per cent. Gross transaction value was 0.6 per cent above the comparative period last year.
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Furniture retailer CSL has taken a warehouse on Grantside’s 19-acre Foxcover Distribution Park in Seaham. It has taken the 37,000 sq ft unit on a ten-year lease at a rent of £4.75 per sq ft. The company will be using the new warehouse as a storage and dis
The Ministry of Defence has signed a two-year deal with CitySprint, worth some £2 million per year, with the opportunity to extend for a further two years.
The Public Sector, Services & Utilities category is one of the most difficult awards to judge. The great diversity of entries, from power generation and railways to medical services, makes direct comparison a tough task.
The Team of the Year category is one of the most difficult to assess. Team work can mean very different things to different people. And of course, it would be hard for any supply chain to develop, transform or improve significantly in an environment where
More than four hundred of Europe’s leading supply chain professionals attended the prize-giving event of the 12th European Supply Chain Excellence Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on the evening of the 28th October.
The Individual Contribution Award is different from all the other categories in the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards: you, the reader, nominate the candidates and vote by email for the winner.
The Fast Moving Consumer Goods/Consumer Packaged Goods category was hard fought this year with four good entries from C&C Group, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Hero and Kimberly-Clark.
In previous years the judges have been disappointed that few entries emphasised the environmental, sustainability or wider Corporate Social Responsibility aspects of their submissions.
The Sourcing & Procurement category came down to a shortlist of three companies – British Ceramic Tile, Haldex and Hewlett Packard CDS.
