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The British Retail Consortium is calling for delivery restrictions to be lifted, and for more information to enable retailers to plan for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012

With the high street stagnating, what retail growth there is, is largely online and involves increasingly challenging stock management and logistics options.

Supermarket retailer Asda is set to submit plans for a 633,150 sq ft state-of-the-art distribution centre a 44-acre site at Wilson Bowden’s 420-acre Kingsway Business Park, Rochdale

Furniture distributor Home & Retail has taken a 179,221 sq ft warehouse at Coltham Development’s Emperor Point scheme near Tamworth

Online retailer and TV shopping channel Pitch World has signed a deal with RCS Logistics to provide e-fulfilment services, including bonded warehousing, customer order picking, packing and dispatch, as well as online order tracking and customer returns

Parcel service Collect+, reckons its service has boosted business in its partner corner shops, with 38 per cent of Collect+ customers buying additional products