articleAsda invests in space efficient automated storage
Swisslog’s AutoStore boosts space efficiency at Asda’s Lutterworth IDC providing an advanced storage and picking solution featuring 140 robots.
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newsAmazon warehouse workers strike in Germany
Around 700 Amazon warehouse workers in Germany went on a one-day strike over pay this month.
blogDeutsch arbeiter über Amazon?
The rise of eCommerce is a bright spot in a gloomy economic landscape but it is also bringing new problems and new battlegrounds for old problems.
news‘Elephant in the room’ as billions spent on omnichannel
A report from LCP Consulting has found UK’s non-food retail sector set to invest almost £5 billion in omnichannel retailing – an integrated retail experience across stores, mobile devices and internet etc – within the next five years.
articleCorrugated packaging proves a flexible friend
Corrugated packaging has adapted to provide solutions suiting eCommerce, retail-ready requirements and much else, says Charapak MD Richard Smith.
articleLoadhog innovates for huge growth
Sheffield-based transit packaging manufacturer and bespoke pooling company Loadhog is well known for designing packaging products that save you time and money. You are probably less aware of the more unusual aspects of the organisation and its big plans for the future. HSS tells all.
articlePallet networks roll with the punches
Online retail has changed the game for pallet networks with smaller consignments and deliveries to residential addresses now much more commonplace. HSS editor Simon Duddy talks to a number of key pallet networks about this and other major developments.
articlePowering an intense application
White goods home delivery company Expert Logistics selected advanced Hawker batteries, chargers and management systems from EnerSys for the lift trucks at its new national distribution centre in Crewe.
productMibelle cleans up
Five Aisle-Master articulated trucks, soon to be followed by a sixth, are in operation at the Mibelle Group’s UK manufacturing and distribution centre in Bradford. Supplying major retailers and the cosmetics industry, the Group is one of the top three manufacturers of personal care products in Europe.
productArticle assortment across a wide temperature range
The EDEKA corporate group Nordbayern-Sachsen-Thueringen has selected a logistics and order picking system from general contractor WITRON.
articleFashion retailer uses fast sortation technology
Fashion brand, The Sting, has used fast sortation technology to effect rapid store replenishment, giving the retailer a significant competitive edge.
newsSainsbury’s opens Thameside DC
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today officially opened Sainsbury’s new Thameside Distribution Centre in South East London.
newsPlanning permission granted for £100m East Midlands parcel hub
The UK’s fastest growing parcel firm DPD has been granted planning permission to build a new £100m parcel hub at Hinckley Commercial Park in the East Midlands.
articleAutomated grocery picking
Warehouse automation supplier, KNAPP, has developed an innovative solution for the automatic handling of containers in the grocery sector.
articleOnline retail pioneer outlines logistics secrets to its success
The French eCommerce pioneer vente-privee.com has chalked up staggering growth over the last decade. With earnings of less than one million euros in 2002, the company turned over €1.3 billion euros in Europe last year.
productHand push snow plough
A bi-directional snow plough making easy work of clearing driveways and paths
productLoadhog enters South African market
When one of South Africa’s largest online stores wanted a faster, safer, more efficient and economical way to handle new category products, Corporate Renaissance Group Supply Chain Services (CRG SCS) suggested the Loadhog Pally.
articleThe benefits of AS/RS
Distribution centre design has evolved from a ‘low and wide’ strategy to ‘narrow and high’, says TGW sales director Phil Steeds.
articleNew sorter helps No Limit carry out two weeks’ work in 2.5 days
SDI’s PTU sorter has transformed sortation performance at No Limit’s multi-client distribution centre near Warsaw from day one.
newsKnapp aims to double turnover by 2020
The Austrian-owned group, KNAPP AG, has improved on last year’s record turnover to report an all-time high of approximately 380 million Euros on 31 March 2013.
