2022 was the worst year for retail in five years. New research by the Centre for Retail Research reported that 17,145 high street shops closed last year. Contributory factors included soaring energy costs and wider inflation, but arguably e-commerce ha…
Pallet supplier Goplasticpallets.com is expanding its warehouse operation in Eastbourne with a new 8,000 sq ft facility adjacent to its existing site. The new site, which was officially opened by Clare Bottle (pictured), chief executive […]
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Last month kicked off the peak season for our industry with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Despite the current cost-of-living crisis, an estimated £3.95 billion was spent on purchases during those two events, never mind the expected activity around Chr…
Over recent issues, I’ve written about the potential for solar panels on warehouse rooftops to save money, reduce emissions and secure electricity supply. As well as helping our sector to help itself, the UK Warehousing Association is campaigning for G…
Members of the House of Lords are to be told that using solar panels on warehouse rooftops could double the UK’s solar capacity, reduce harmful emissions and slash energy costs. The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) is teaming up with solar pane…
At last month’s IMHX, UKWA brought together specialists Kevin McCann from Solar Energy UK, Thomas McMillan from Savills and Jenna Strover of Potter Group to discuss the issues behind the headline results of our ground-breaking research report into sola…
The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has welcomed news of a new £55m government fund to support an energy transition for the UK’s industrial sector which comes in the wake of the association’s call for a major roll out of solar panels on wareho…
The UK Warehousing Association is to hold a regional event in Scotland on 20 September at Malcolm Logistics Heritage Centre in Glasgow. This is the latest in a series of events that UKWA has been rolling out across the UK in the run up to its UK…
UKWA has pushed back hard on government proposals for Business Rates Revaluation 2023, pointing out in response to a recent consultation that for warehouse operators the principle of ‘transitional relief’ for small buildings is deeply unhelpful. The th…
For too long warehousing was below the government’s radar. The Cinderella service. White papers, reports and policy proposals for the ‘Logistics Industry’ invariably focused on transport and distribution, but largely overlooked storage and the solution…
Since the beginning of lockdown over two years ago, it goes without saying that the world of warehousing has become considerably more complex. Pressures including the rise of e-commerce, increased automation and the drive towards carbon net zero have c…
Logistics is all about supply and demand. And now there’s a growing mismatch between demand for workers – illustrated by vacancy rates – and the supply of available applicants. As delegates were reminded last month at our UKWA National Conference: the …
The history of automation is a long story of using technology to minimise human input. It’s a way of getting more reward for less human effort. You could argue that the invention of the wheel was the moment when we began to automate logistics. Fast-for…
Andy Street, the Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands has described levelling up as “a level playing field for the UK’s regions”, whilst Simon Clarke, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says it is about “creating jobs and opportunity and restoring pri…