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Amazon patents drone parachute
Amazon has patented the transport of goods from drones to homes via parachute. This comes soon after the e-commerce giant patented an airborne fulfilment centre designed for service deliveries made by...
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ASOS chooses BS Handling for hanging garments
BS Handling Systems has completed a contract with ASOS to design, manufacture and install a hanging garment solution for its site in Barnsley. The new system can store 500,000 hanging garments, and...
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Amazon to generate 5,000 UK jobs
Amazon is planning to generate 5,000 UK jobs this year – taking the total workforce to more than 24,000 people. The retail giant is offering a number of role opportunities, including jobs in its...
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Amazon to talk robotics at LSC Conference
Vishal Bansal, UK supply chain director for retail giant Amazon, is to talk robotics at the upcoming Logistics & Supply Chain Conference. Bansal will explore how the company is using robotics and...
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Gardman relocates to Daventry
Garden products supplier Gardman has taken a 416,412 sq ft warehouse at Prologis’ Prologis Apex Park in Daventry. The building, which will complete the third phase of Prologis Apex Park, will be...
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Only three per cent of UK retailers are able to make a profit while fulfilling omni-channel demand, finds a survey commissioned by JDA. The research also found that globally, only ten per cent of those...
View ArticleBig plans for Argos
Argos used Paragon to plan more than one million Fast Track deliveries over the Christmas trading period, the company as said. Andy Brown, central operations director at Argos, said: “As part of...
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Hanhaa to launch live parcel tracking
Hanhaa is launching its live parcel tracking service, ParceLive, after two years of development. Each ParceLive tracking device will come with an embedded Hanhaa Mobile SIM enabling the parcel to...
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Aldi opens £60m distribution hub
Aldi has opened its £60 million, 495,000 sq ft distribution hub in Cardiff. The facility, which will be fully operational by next month, is set to generate 400 new jobs. The budget supermarket chain is...
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Sainsbury’s to close Stone warehouse
Supermarket retailer Sainsbury’s is to close its Stone site run by XPO Logistics. The operation will move to a new location in early 2019. An XPO spokesperson said: “We have been informed that the...
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John Lewis picks Virtualstock IT platform
John Lewis Partnership has chosen the Virtualstock IT platform to manage some one million consumer orders a year across some 350 suppliers. The aim is to ensure that consumers receive the same...
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XPO wins big contract with Gower furniture
XPO Logistics has won a long-term, multi-million pound contract with Gower Furniture, owned by Swedish company Nobia AB. The logistics company will deliver 2,000 timed, full load deliveries to customer...
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Asda fined after mice found at depot
Asda has been fined £300,000 after dead mice and flies were found at its Enfield depot in May 2016. The centre delivers food to homes in London and Essex. An Asda spokesperson said: “The conditions...
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Tesco extends same day click & collect service
Tesco is extending its same day click and collect service. Now an unlimited number items can be ordered before 9am – customers then book a two-hour window to collect the items from 12pm onwards. Before...
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Moores Furniture chooses Paragon software
Kitchen and bathroom manufacturer Moores Furniture Group has chosen Paragon’s routing and scheduling software. Moores runs its commercial vehicles from a site in Wetherby in West Yorkshire, as well as...
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Tesco launches food waste hotline
Tesco has launched an online food waste hotline for suppliers and growers. The new service is available to all of the supermarket retailer’s suppliers via its supplier network. The network is used by...
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Fox Biscuits chooses FuturMaster
Fox Biscuits has chosen FuturMaster’s supply chain technology. The technology manages up to 150 deliveries a week to retailers including, Aldi, Marks & Spencer and Tesco. “It’s crucial for us to...
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Amazon launches one-hour Morrisons delivery
Amazon Prime is now launching one-hour delivery from Morrisons in selected areas of London and Hertfordshire. The retail giant has now made thousands of additional products from Morrisons stores...
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Tesco picks Transporeon
Tesco UK has chosen the Transporeon Group’s retail division Mercareon to deploy its cloud-based software for inbound logistics at its UK distribution centres. The software, which is currently under...
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Marston’s invests £700,000 in lift trucks
Marston’s, the pub retailer and brewing company, has invested £700,000 in Yale equipment in a contract with Briggs Equipment. Briggs will supply Marston’s with 37 pieces of Yale equipment including: 3...
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