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- £140 million, fully automated, 101,000 pallet cold store comes online in Lincolnshire Magnavale Ltd, one of the UK’s leading temperature-controlled food storage specialists, has announced the official opening of Magnavale Easton. The £140 million investment has resulted in a facility with 101,000...
- Foodex Manufacturing Solutions Returns to the UK Food & Drink Shows in 2025 Foodex Manufacturing Solutions will be back at the NEC, Birmingham this April (7th–9th), as part of the UK Food & Drink Shows. Bringing together the very best of the hospitality,...
- UK supply chains get safeguarding boost UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded £13 million to make UK supply chains more resilient. Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded £5 million to create a new network plus...
- UK Food System Net Zero plan outlines how industry and government can achieve ambitious 2050 emission reduction targets The Institute for Grocery Distribution (IGD) has released the report, A Net Zero Transition Plan for the UK Food System, providing a framework for the food sector to achieve 70% emissions...
- Britvic invests £25 million to upgrade national distribution centre Britvic, the UK-based global soft drinks business, is celebrating the opening of its upgraded national distribution centre in Leicestershire, following £25 million of investment. The site supplies national and international...
- £140 million, fully automated, 101,000 pallet cold store comes online in Lincolnshire Magnavale Ltd, one of the UK’s leading temperature-controlled food storage specialists, has announced the official opening of Magnavale Easton. The £140 million investment has resulted in a facility with 101,000...
- Foodex Manufacturing Solutions Returns to the UK Food & Drink Shows in 2025 Foodex Manufacturing Solutions will be back at the NEC, Birmingham this April (7th–9th), as part of the UK Food & Drink Shows. Bringing together the very best of the hospitality,...
- UK supply chains get safeguarding boost UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded £13 million to make UK supply chains more resilient. Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded £5 million to create a new network plus...
- UK Food System Net Zero plan outlines how industry and government can achieve ambitious 2050 emission reduction targets The Institute for Grocery Distribution (IGD) has released the report, A Net Zero Transition Plan for the UK Food System, providing a framework for the food sector to achieve 70% emissions...
- Britvic invests £25 million to upgrade national distribution centre Britvic, the UK-based global soft drinks business, is celebrating the opening of its upgraded national distribution centre in Leicestershire, following £25 million of investment. The site supplies national and international...
The European meat supply chain still contains “shocking blind spots”, said a supply chain management firm, after the Dutch authorities revealed 50,000t of meat supplied by two Dutch meat traders may have
Fall Stop H911 is a unique anti-slip Hotmelt from KMS Adhesives; the UK’s innovative company at the forefront of adhesives technology. Fall Stop H911 is designed to secure packaging firmly
LLamasoft, Inc., the provider of supply chain design software solutions, has announced that Mengniu, one of China’s leading dairy producers, has selected LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru as the primary supply
Food and drink supply chain specialist Culina has announced plans to open a major chilled distribution centre at Cabot Park, Bristol later this year. The new state-of-the-art 210,000ft2 (19,500m2) distribution
The T&D Corporation improves its offering in Cloud computing: The optimised T&D WebStorage Service enables users of T&D data loggers to access and share their data via the Internet. Niddatal
Domino’s Pizza Group is implementing a new ‘pick-by-store’ solution, which will integrate with the group’s warehouse management system, OpenWMS from Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced). The new solution will go live
Doubles capacity in South West, creates over 100 jobs, enhances regional & national capability Food and drink supply chain specialist Culina has announced plans to open a major chilled distribution
Researchers have developed a methodology based on software to help with the safety of packaging throughout the supply chain. Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis ” (FMECA) methodology was developed
Potter Logistics will be promoting its intermodal services and new corporate identity at the Multimodal exhibition on stand 320 from 23rd – 25th April 2013 at the NEC,Birmingham. The company,
Britain’s leading supplier of fresh eggs has enlisted a new fleet of temperature-controlled trailers as it steps up its campaign in support of the nation’s armed forces. The Gray &
The fully automated & efficient site is now fully operational and integrated into Yearsley Systems Hams Hall, Yearsley Logistics newest acquisition, is now fully operational and integrated with Yearsley Logistics
Food logistics company ACS&T has signed a new three-year contract with Young’s, a British producer and distributor of frozen seafood products. ACS&T has been providing services to Grimsby-based Young’s since
The Sherwood Press has worked closely with its strategic partner Loxleys, to reduce the impact of both companies’ transport activities on the environment. Through careful analysis and planning, Sherwood Press
Clugston Distribution, the logistics arm of the Clugston Group of Companies, has announced an ambitious £1.5 million capital expansion of its fleet during 2013. The expansion is part of the
The 10 X 30 tons fermentation tanks are to be discharged during the week and installed in Diageo’s Guinness (St. James Gate) plant. The historic city-centre brewery’s fermentation plant is
Premium Warehousing has secured a major new contract originating from national brewer Carlsberg. LocateIT WMS from Clydebuilt Business Solutions has been instrumental in the deal, catering for the Excise requirements
Shared-user distribution specialist Lenham Storage has gained the coveted accreditation of the British Retail Consortium for the storage and distribution it provides to the grocery sector. The BRC is one
DHL Tradeteam has revealed details of its three year contract with soft drink bottler and supplier Coca-Cola Hellenic, its first direct relationship with a soft drinks supplier The contract, which
Sofrilog Distribution, the transportation division of the national network of Sofrilog Cold Storage, has chosen to implement Ortec’s route planning solution. The company will combine reactive and optimised logistics to
The latest version of the Accellos warehouse management system (WMS) from BalloonOne simplifies traceability for food processors and distributors. The system provides full visibility of raw material coming into the
Leading logistics provider to the global beverage market JF Hillebrand has recently managed the transportation of a highly-valuable consignment of one of Australia’s most prestigious wines – Penfolds Grange. The
Yearsley Group has unveiled a complete re branding for all its business divisions, including new logos and vehicle livery. New
The season of goodwill saw a significant increase in contract packing case numbers for Oakland International, who in addition to
Promotions support, sustainable growth for food and drink logistics specialist Culina, the UK leader in food and drink logistics, has
Winterbotham Darby is an award-winning supplier of high quality continental foods to the retail and foodservice sectors. To enhance an
FHG IPP Logipal, the UK & Ireland’s second largest pooling supplier and leading high quality pallet pooling specialist, has won
Seventy percent of companies believe that climate change has the potential to affect their revenue significantly, a risk which is
Supply chain IT company BalloonOne is reducing sales margin shrinkage for fresh food distributors by making it easier to keep
A COMPANY in Co Down which distributes healthy foods has announced new partners for sending a sought-after brand around Ireland.
Grace Foods, one of the UK’s largest suppliers of world foods and drinks, has extended its transport and distribution contract
Food import and category management company Pimpernel Wharf has awarded a chilled distribution contract to Culina covering the supply of
UK’s leading xylitol brand chooses food and drink specialist for national distribution contract Total Sweet, the 100% natural sugar alternative,
Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board) together with experienced UK and Irish food distribution company, Oakland International, recently played host
Bord Bia together with experienced UK and Irish food distribution company, Oakland International, played host to a visiting group of
Tesco will become the first retailer in the UK to work directly with beef and pork farmers through a new
Yearsley Group, the UK’s largest cold storage and distribution company, has announced it has expanded its investment in Autostore. The
Barloworld Supply Chain Software (Barloworld SCS) celebrated some of its top software users of 2012 including BAT, Carlsberg, DHL, LEGO
Since its initial implementation in 2011 the Empirica warehouse management system provided by Chess Logistics Technology has supported rapid growth
Yorkshire based Potter Group Logistics has posted a set of strong financial results for the year ending April 2012. With
The winners for this year’s eyefortransport European 3PL Awards were announced and celebrated at a reception during the recent 10th
Rehrig Pacific Company – manufacturer of reusable transport packaging systems including plastic pallets, distribution and display crates, and carts and
Significant improvements in delivery performance, transport efficiencies and operational collaborations are the key benefits reported by Westmill Foods just six
Based in Ashbourne Co. Meath and working in partnership with leading European fresh pasta producer, Giovanni Rana, supply chain specialist
Glanbia, the global nutritionals and dairy business group, is cutting 106,000 km a year from its delivery vehicle routes by
Wincanton has been awarded a multi-million-pound, five-year contract by supermarket group Morrisons to operate its first ever dedicated UK convenience
Product will be distributed to customers from Middleton using a shared user model across the supply chain specialist’s network of
Norbert Dentressangle has joined forces with Villa Soft Drinks to support the company’s distribution and storage of soft drinks and
Award-winning brewer Timothy Taylor has been using the Tinytag Radio Data Logging System to help ensure that its Yorkshire Beers
CHEP, provider of pallet and container pooling solutions, has announced that consumer packaged goods company Procter & Gamble (P&G) will
Ceremonial lifting of first paving slab signals reconstruction of berths 201 and 202 to service next generation of super-sized container
The Tropicana distribution center in Jersey City, NJ,part of PepsiCo’s North America Beverages (NAB) had the goal of improved efficiency
Young’s Seafood choose Yearsley Group as their sales partner in the UK The Young’s Seafood Foodservice Division have entrusted all
mobile devices the new apps reduce the cost of deploying ePOD and eServ in typical applications by 30% or more.
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