DKF opens Coventry fulfilment centre
DK Fulfilment, which specialises in e-commerce order fulfilment, has opened a 165,000 sq ft facility in Coventry. The refurbished site has three storage chambers with a combination of wide and narrow...
View ArticleComfy Quilts picks Snapfulfil
Comfy Quilts, the pillow and duvet manufacturer, has chosen the Snapfulfil SaaS WMS for its retail and wholesale warehousing operations, including a new 110,000 sq ft site at Stakehill Industrial...
View ArticleASOS extends Royal Mail contract
ASOS has awarded a new delivery contract to Royal Mail extending a 15 year relationship. The deal also extends Royal Mail’s capacity to handle returns by 25 per cent. Royal Mail currently handles...
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Bathroom retailer awards £37.5m contract to DHL
Bathroom retailer bathstore has extended its contract with DHL Supply Chain for a further five years. The deal is worth £37.5 million. The national and dedicated operation will run from a base in...
View ArticleM & Co picks Clipper for delivery contract
Mackays Stores, which trades as M & Co, has awarded the contract for distribution to its shops to Clipper Logistics. From January, Clipper will be serving M & Co’s retail store base on an...
View ArticleDelivery specialists prepare for 30pc Black Friday uplift
Home delivery specialists have been setting out their strategies for dealing with Black Friday amid predictions that the peak could be 30 per cent higher than last year. Dick Stead, executive chairman...
View ArticleCulina wins Peperami contract
Culina has won the contract to handle the UK distribution of Peperami for Jack Link’s the meat snack provider. Ack Link’s bought the Peperami brand from Unilever last year. Culina will support Jack...
View ArticleAlibaba picks Royal Mail for UK deliveries
Alibaba, the Chinese online retailer, is using Royal Mail to offer improved delivery options to online shoppers in the UK. AliExpress, Alibaba Group’s global retail marketplace for consumers, will...
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Asda calls time on Black Friday
Asda has said customer “shopping fatigue” has prompted a decision to opt out of shopping phenomenon Black Friday this month. The supermarket retailer, who introduced Black Friday to the UK market in...
View ArticleWaterstones picks Royal Mail for online deliveries
Bookseller Waterstones has awarded Royal Mail a three year contract to handle UK and international customer deliveries for Waterstones.com. Compared to 2014, Waterstones has seen a rise of three per...
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Boohoo snaps up Burnley shed
Internet retailer Boohoo has paid £1.7 million for a warehouse at the Heansfield Industrial Estate in Burnley. The 113,000 sq ft facility is next to its existing base where it has invested £14 million...
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John Lewis deploys Screen-to-Voice system
John Lewis has implemented Voiteq’s VoiceMan Screen-to-Voice system extending the use of voice to the loading and marshalling areas of its distribution centre. Screen-to-Voice takes the text prompts...
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Asda launches third party parcel service
Asda has launched a new parcel service that will enable customers to collect or return orders made at third party online retailers. Misguided has been named as the first retailer to join the service....
View ArticleChinese Singles Day to hit UK next year
The Chinese holiday for singles that saw $14.3 billion worth of sales in 24 hours, might be coming to the hit the UK next year. International e-commerce delivery company ParcelHero reckons the holiday...
View ArticleSaltrock picks Seko for bricks to clicks
Lifestyle brand Saltrock is using Seko Logistics’ fulfilment and freight forwarding services for both its traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ stores and online sales. The retailer currently has 42 stores...
View ArticleRoyal Mail set to buy eCourier
Royal Mail has agreed to buy same day delivery company eCourier. Combining the service with Royal Mail’s current same day business, Royal Mail Sameday, the postal company hopes to “create a significant...
View ArticleFour-fold increase for iForce
iForce has almost quadrupled its workforce from 750 to 2600 to cope with Black Friday and the rest of the Christmas season this year. The logistics and software company expect to dispatch 146,000 items...
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Get set for ‘Out of Stock Saturday’
Saturday 12th December has been dubbed “Out of Stock Saturday” by analysts Clear Returns, as it will be the day when the largest number of retailers’ stock will be tied up in the returns loop and...
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Consumers ‘put off’ buying Christmas gifts online
Almost one third of UK shoppers have been put of buying Christmas gifts online because of the risk of unreliable deliveries, according to a survey by TomTom. The survey of more than 1,000 UK shoppers...
View ArticleRiver Island launches ‘Click & Don’t Collect’
River Island has become the first retailer to use an in-store collection service from Shutl called “Click & Don’t Collect”. This gives click and collect customers the option of changing to Shutl’s...
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