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Yesterday’s supply chain networks are costing businesses today, warns Fraser Ironside, business development director for network design at Barloworld Optimus.
FKI Logistex has been awarded a contract by Bovis Lend Lease to design, manufacture and install a parcel sortation system.
Non food retailers and food retailers have taken up the most new shed space on the market,
Open Projects has developed a software solution to help retailers better manage the distribution of magazines and newspapers.
Catalyst International has agreed a formal partnership with Jade Communications, a UK-based network integration specialist.
Non food retailers and food retailers have taken up the most new shed space on the market, taking a floorspace share of 35.4 per cent and 33.3 per cent respectively according to King Sturge.
The Institute of Grocery Distribution has launched a three step system designed to help the industry minimise the environmental impact of transporting food and groceries.
Pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca has awarded NYK Logistics a £6m two and a half year contract for the centralised planning and primary distribution of pharmaceuticals from its manufacturing sites throughout Europe into its European distributio
Electrical retailer Maplin Electronics has taken a 196,000 sq ft warehouse at St Paul’s Developments’ Brookfields Park in Rotherham, South Yorkshire to house its new UK head office and distribution centre.
