John Hutchings, chief executive of the Food Storage and Distribution Federation, has retired.
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An exhibition celebrating the work of the Port of London Authority (PLA) over the past 100 years is running at the Museumof London Docklands.
Volvo Trucks has helped to float the latest fundraising venture by the RNLI’s Warwick Ladies’ Lifeboat Guild – a book of family-friendly recipes called “Granny To the Rescue!” It paid the £4,000 printing costs so that the entire proceeds from the initial
A successful business relies on the quality of its workforce so finding the right logisticians should be a top priority. But all too often companies waste valuable time and money as a result of sloppy recruitment methods. In such a time-critical industry
Every day in Britain at least one worker is taken to hospital with injuries following an accident involving a forklift truck. And, on average, once every six weeks someone is killed. Statistics from the Health & Safety Executive show transport is the seco
The posters in the high street say it all: “half-price sale”, “up to 70 per cent off”, “extra discount today”. As the “credit crunch” continues to bite, discretionary spending plummets and sales at discounters soar. How is the current downturn hitting ret
Bringing all raw materials on site saves thousands for Barry Callebaut
The number of new warehouses being speculatively developed in the UK has fallen by a whopping 43 per cent, according to the latest King Sturge Industrial & Distribution Floorspace Today survey.
Despite whatever the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics – robustly “disputed” by the British Retail Consortium – would have us believe, sales in the high street are rather less than buoyant. The ONS’s 3.8 per cent year-on-year increase
Along with the current spate of profits warnings and “disappointing” results, we’ve all noticed how retail clearance sales seem to start earlier and earlier each year. Long ago and far away they were in mid-January and July, now mid-December and early Jun
