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UPS and packaging providers innovate on e-commerce drinks distribution
UPS, Sealed Air (SEE), Smurfit Kappa and Macfarlane Packaging have launched a new range of packaging specially designed for shipping individual bottles of spirits and wine in the UK and Ireland....
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Tesco invests in urban fulfilment centres as online sales double
Tesco is targeting the development of “at least” 25 urban fulfilment centres (UFCs) to drive its boom in online grocery deliveries, which now account for 16% of its total sales. Reporting its first...
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Wincanton to run London online fulfilment centre for Waitrose
Waitrose is to open its third online fulfilment centre in London, adding Greenford in the west of the city to existing sites in Couldson in the south and Enfield in the north. As part of an initial...
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‘Online giant’ snaps up Merseyside shed
An ‘online giant’ has snapped up a 35,200 sq ft warehouse Network Spaces’s Element warehouse scheme at Alchemy Business Park in Knowsley. The e-commerce firm has taken a 10-year lease on the unit...
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Rex Brown to roll-out modular sortation robots
GreyOrange is to supply a fleet of modular sortation robots to UK-based e-commerce specialist Rex Brown. The sourcing, branding and distribution specialist has chosen the GreyOrange Ranger Mobile Sort,...
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Sainsbury’s sees fundamental shift online
Sainsbury’s has seen its business change “fundamentally” during lockdown, with digital sales more than doubling in recent weeks. Overall grocery sales at the second largest supermarket in the UK were...
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Interroll targets omni-channel fashion with “scalable” offering
Omni-channel fashion logistics operations are looking for easy to install, modular and scalable infrastructure in order to cope with multiple demand peaks and the easing of lockdown restrictions,...
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Goods importer snaps up Suffolk shed
Consumer goods importer M H Star has snapped up developer Jaynic’s SP206 warehouse at Suffolk Park, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Moris Ye, assistant manager – UK Operations at M H Star UK, said: “Choosing...
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Warehouse take-up set to surpass ten-year average
New research from Cushman & Wakefield shows that overall take-up for 2020 is expected to surpass the 10-year average of 33 million sq ft. The company said that there was a further 16 million sq ft...
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Sports Direct snaps up Sheffield warehouse for designer brands
Sports Direct has taken Clearbell Property Partners’ 390,000 sq ft warehouse at Sheffield Parkway, South Yorkshire. The sports retailer has secured a five year lease and will use the property as a...
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DPD takes on former DHL warehouse in Leeds
Parcel delivery firm DPD as taken take a 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Gildersome, Leeds. The company has secured a ten year lease on the property known as Express House. The facility underwent a major...
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Covid impact changes operational model for UK Flooring Direct and Menzies...
Wood and laminate floor retailer UK Flooring has revealed it had to redesign the entire proposition behind its customer delivery contract with Menzies Distribution during lockdown. Within a week of the...
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Boohoo committed to ‘proper renumeration’ in its supply chain
Online fashion retailer Boohoo has said it is committed to making sure “everyone working to produce clothing in [its] supply chain, is properly remunerated, fairly treated, and safe at work” after a...
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Major UK retailers drop coconut suppliers using monkey labour in supply chain
Food retailers including Tesco, Ocado, Co-op, and Asda have dropped suppliers using monkeys to collect coconuts. PETA Asia (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released an exposé of the...
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Boohoo terminates contracts with suppliers in wake of pay allegations
Boohoo has denied allegations that some of its suppliers have paid staff less than minimum wage, but it has ended contracts with suppliers that have not followed its code of conduct. Following...
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Grade A warehouse space availability drops 7% as e-commerce drives demand
There is 7% less warehouse space available to industrial and logistics occupiers in the UK than there was this time last year with e-commerce fulfilment driving take-up levels. According to JLL’s...
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AMH wins multi-million pound e-commerce contract with Asda
AMH Material Handling has won a multi-million pound contract with Asda to fit its north-east clothing depot in Washington, Tyne and Wear. The contract will see AMH expand and convert the current retail...
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‘The world has changed’ says Ocado as sales rise 27%
Ocado has said that customers will not be going back to pre-Covid-19 shopping behaviours and the sector should expect to see the continued growth of online grocery retail. The comments come after Ocado...
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ASOS sales rise despite warehousing capacity restrictions
Sales at ASOS increased 10% in the four months ending 30 June, despite the online fashion giant stifled demand and adjusted warehousing throughput in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Group sales at...
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Logistics Manager Analysis: Are fashion supply chains unravelling?
With stores closed and consumers in lockdown, e-commerce alone has not been able to relieve the pressure on the high-turnover world of fashion. Can supply chains adjust to life without the latest...
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