With retailers increasingly focussed on sustainability, Simon Batt, CEO of Asendia UK, explains how emissions reporting per parcel, combined with carbon offsetting by shipping partners, will help e-commerce retailers meet their ESG goals Importance is growing around carbon reporting, with the risk of ecommerce retailers racing to find metrics that (more…)
Primark could add a click and collect offer to its website offer in time but will steer clear of selling online, the company has said. The retail giant is launching a new website in the UK by the end of March, and across the rest of its markets by autumn. John Bason, finance director (more…)
Hermes UK is rebranding as Evri, with a new logo and brand identity being rolled out across all its locations, vehicles and ParcelShops. The brand will be launched through the company’s first TV advertising campaign which debuts at 8.15pm on Friday 18th March, during the Coronation Street centre advert break. The (more…)
Royal Mail is to roll out delivery photo confirmations for customers using its tracked services. The feature will give Royal Mail’s sending and receiving customers increased visibility of how and where mail is delivered. The Royal Mail app and website will show the postie’s photo of the delivered item when (more…)
Boohoo Group saw high returns levels which it expects to continue to the first half of its 2022/23 financial year the company has revealed in its latest trading update. Boohoo Group said that sales rose 14% in the full year to 28 February but that higher returns during the Christmas (more…)
John Lewis will open its new distribution centre, Fenny Lock, this summer, increasing its online capacity as a result. The retailer announced it was leasing the 1 million sq ft site in Milton Keynes from Tesco last year. It will be John Lewis’ second largest distribution centre after nearby Magna (more…)
Made.com is hoping to introduce lead times of three to four weeks by the end of the first half of 2022 halving those seen during the pandemic, the company revealed in its full-year results announcement today. Lead times have been impacted by the global supply chain challenges faced by the (more…)
As part of International Women’s Day 2022, Shelley Harris, commercial director at pallet pool provider IPP, shares her experiences of the logistics industry and how she has forged a successful career in the sector Having worked at IPP for over ten years and progressing from manager to director, it’s only upon reflection (more…)
Coffee subscription service deliveries have seen a 105% rise in year on year sales, according to data from Awin. The data shows that Brits spent more than £500,000 in the last year on coffee subscriptions delivered direct to their door. The increase in subscription sales also coincides with a rise (more…)
XPO Logistics is to host its second women drivers forum at its national distribution centre in Crick, Northamptonshire. The event takes place on 22 March and the company is encouraging all women drivers in its UK and Ireland operations to attend the event. XPO held the first forum in 2021 (more…)
Fashion retailer Missguided has launched a 45-day consultation period with 140 jobs at risk as it looks to restructure the business after being hit by a number of factors, including supply chain disruption. It said that supply chain disruption, inflation and falling customer demand had hit the fashion industry hard (more…)
Hermes UK is expanding capacity with the opening of a new distribution depot in Aylesford, Maidstone. The 78,794 sq ft warehouse, which will be operational later this year, will see the creation of around 50 full-time jobs and 100 part-time jobs. The new site will be able to handle more than (more…)
Asos has asked its suppliers for a 2% trade discount on goods in order to beat rising inflation, according to Drapers. The company is said to have written to its Asos Design and third-party branded supplier base to ask for the discount on the agreed retail price on invoices dated (more…)
Hermes UK has integrated Hurricane Commerce’s Zephyr and Aura solutions to improve the quality, accuracy and compliance of its cross-border shipment data. The importance of such data has become even more important following regulatory events including Brexit, the US STOP Act and the EU’s abolition of the VAT exemption on (more…)
DPD has welcomed Britain’s first Zero Emission Zone (ZEZ) pilot, launched in Oxford. The company was at the launch of the initiative with local driver Mohammed Bilal Khan, who drives one of the company’s 40 electric van’s based at DPD’s Bicester eco-depot, which serves the city. In total, DPD now (more…)
Tesco is extending its partnership with rapid delivery firm Gorillas, to allow speedy deliveries in Manchester. The two companies originally partnered to offer rapid deliveries in Thornton Heath and Lewisham in October of last year, with goods fulfilled from dark stores located in the back of superstores. Customers close to (more…)
The John Lewis Partnership is replacing its Home Services fleet with electric vehicles. The move comes as part of its pledge to move 4,000 cars, vans and light trucks to electric by 2030. The company will begin a trial in partnership with EV technology specialists Flexible Power Systems, which is establishing (more…)
The GMB has urged Asda bosses to revise their pay deal to avoid the threat of industrial action amongst distribution centre members. It comes after nearly 70 per cent of the 8,000 GMB members polled turned down the below inflation pay offer. Meanwhile, almost 80 per cent of the warehouse and clerical workers and LGV (more…)
Iceland is to expand its Uber Eats partnership to a further 200 stores, after initially rolling it out across more than 100 stores in London last year. From April the partnership will mean that shoppers can add more than 3,000 Iceland products on Uber Eats from 200 further stores across (more…)
DPD UK and what3words have partnered to allow customers to add their what3words address to deliveries from this Friday. They will be able to add the address in the delivery preferences of the DPD app so that delivery drivers can pinpoint the exact delivery point – whether that’s a doorstep (more…)