newsThe growth in ecommerce has brought big business to the logistics industry and will continue to do so between now and 2018, with 92% of logistics companies seeing it as their biggest area for growth over the next four years.
newsPart- and full-time roles ahead of Christmas peak include 750 warehouse staff to work at Yodel’s parcel sorting centres.
productWaitrose has become the first supermarket in the UK to launch a trial of automated, temperature-controlled lockers for online grocery orders in third party locations.
newsLKE Group has targeted the UK to help in its bid to double turnover over the next five years.
productFollowing the recently released Which? report rating the best and worst delivery firms, Stuart Higgins, retail partner at LCP Consulting said last mile fulfilment is the new retail battleground.
articleDr Ross Moloney, CEO of Skills for Logistics, reviews the state of skills in the logistics sector and how employers can take control of the challenge this presents.
productOnline retailer claims further gains are likely as the major automation projects rolled out by the company come on stream.
newsUK and International courier ParcelHero has welcomed the survey conducted by consumer champions Which? into parcel delivery problems, and its campaign to ‘Stamp Out Dodgy Deliveries’.
articleWhat does the future hold for the logistics industry over the next decade? Dave Berridge, Secretary of the Automated Material Handling System Association (AMHSA) takes out his crystal ball.
articleHornby Hobbies has moved its warehouse to new facilities in Hersden, Canterbury which will be run by DS Logistics.
articleGoodman has delivered over 3,280,839 sq ft of warehouse for Amazon across Europe, with the retailers’s latest fulfilment centre in Wroclaw, Poland now complete.
articleJapanese machinery manufacturer Murata Machinery (Muratec) has acquired the stock of Cimcorp Oy of Finland.
articleFace Consultants is the leading testing organisation and experts in the measurement and control of industrial concrete floors, and they are regularly doing work at online retail giant Amazon sites.
articleUS food retailer Kroger has partnered with Witron for nine projects over 15 years. The latest saw Witron reconfigure a huge DC.
productTransdek is exhibiting its Double Deck Urban Eco Trailer (DUET) at the Quiet Cities Global Summit, Twickenham Stadium, London, 25 – 26 November 2014.
articleCHEP is collaborating with Henderson Wholesale, which owns the SPAR supermarket franchise in Northern Ireland.
newsRetailer Aldi will invest over £109 million in the UK across the next 12 months, building a distribution centre and new stores.
newsRoyal Mail has revealed it has issued a tender for parcels automation equipment to ‘help inform our business case’.
newsSupply chain IT firm Descartes has acquired Airclic, a US-based provider of mobile solutions that help companies reduce the cost of delivering goods by automating traditional paper-based processes.
newsThe union GMB staged a demonstration outside the M&S Store in Slough protesting against long hours and relatively low pay for warehouse workers on agency contracts.
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