newsPrime Minister-to-be Andy Burnham has said he is looking to raise business rates on warehouses to pay for a potential 20% cut for high street businesses – a move that has been labelled ‘wrongheaded, damaging and stupid’.
newsChinese 3PL Top Cloud Logistics has taken a second warehouse at developer investor Prologis’ 65-acre Prologis Park Midpoint scheme in Birmingham in the West Midlands.
newsSymbotic announced the acquisition which seeks to ‘advance a new industry category, Warehouse Operations Optimisation’.
newsWest Northamptonshire Council has refused Frontier Estates’ application to develop a 750,714 ft2 industrial and logistics scheme on the former Furtho Pit gravel works site after receiving some 3,500 objections.
newsBookseller Waterstones is to open a new distribution facility at Indurent Park Burton after securing an assignment of a 295,000 ft2 warehouse facility from recipe box company Gousto.
newsA decade-long IoT tracking partnership with Sensolus saw the aerospace manufacturer reduce lost assets by 80% across a network of more than 100 sites.
newsA report from GXO Logistics – The Future of Transport – adds that a growing number admit they don’t know how to translate ambition into action.
articleThe news that the Government’s revised Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) drops 2027 EPC C deadline for large commercial rentals has to be good news, especially as it was estimated that approximately 128 million ft2 of UK warehouse space, 18% of all units above 50,000 ft2 would have failed to meet it. Liza Helps reports.
newsCainiao has been named Procter & Gamble’s global strategic automation partner.
newsThe automation leader is making a paradigm shift from traditional optimisation within the logistics centre towards end-to-end, data-based, and dynamic network optimisation.
newsChinese 3PL Super Smart Services (CIRRO Fulfillment) has snapped up another warehouse at Fradley Park, Lichfield in the Midlands.
newsMajor retailers are being held back from essential supply chain transformation by outdated decision-making methods, according to new research from Kallikor.
newsThe gains were made in collaboration with Locus Robotics, which has developed a cold-storage hardware modification for the leading meal kit company.
newsNew Barclays and Retail Economics research finds almost half of UK shoppers have bought from Chinese-owned low-cost platforms, as low-cost global players reshape competition for UK retailers.
newsSpecialist logistics developer Padrock has submitted plans to speculatively develop a 245,000 ft2 Grade A urban multi-let industrial (MLI) and logistics development in Elstree, Hertfordshire.
newsLogistics and distribution firm PACE Logistics has snapped up investor Realterm’s last mile warehouse facility, Northbank 40 in Irlam Greater Manchester on a 10 year lease.
newsInternational furniture retailer Nick Scali moved into its new Northamptonshire warehouse within five days of agreeing heads of terms with investor and developer, Hillwood for the Q80 Quattro Raunds property.
newsJP Morgan Asset Management and joint venture partner Graftongate have submitted a planning application for a prime urban logistics development in Bracknell.
newsUS logistics property investor and developer Prologis has offered £12.6 billion to acquire UK rival SEGRO.
articleBritain is on course to become one of the only Western economies still letting low-value imports in untaxed, says Ronald Kleijwegt.
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