Competitive Advantage, working in collaboration with The Building Centre, has developed a series of one-day sales and marketing training programmes designed specifically for building products manufacturers and suppliers. The courses will run in the spring and again in the autumn. All courses will be held at The Building Centre in …

The Freight Transport Association is urging the Chancellor to keep tomorrow’s Budget focussed on a business agenda. The call comes following an unworkable set of recommendations from the Environmental Audit Committee aimed at focussing taxation on reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The Commons Committee called on the Chancellor to consider reintroducing …

The Freight Transport Association represents the transport interests of companies moving goods by road, rail, sea and air. FTA members operate over 200,000 goods vehicles – almost half the UK fleet. In addition, they consign over 90 per cent of the freight moved by rail and over 70 per cent …

Hellmann and Rudolph Logistik Group open UAE logistics centre for AUDI Volkswagen Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, the global logistics provider has opened a new large-scale distribution centre in Dubai, as part of a joint venture with Rudolph Logistik Group. The centre has been established by the two firms on behalf of …

SWORD, the international IT products and services company, has launched an innovative document control system aimed at significantly reducing the costly delays associated with existing systems used in complex projects by the engineering, energy, transport and other industrial sectors. The C2Share Document Control system is based on Microsoft's powerful SharePoint® …

Life is certainly sweet for national waste management firm HIPPOWASTE™ with the latest addition to its growing business client base. The company has signed up Europe's number one pick & mix confectionary specialists, Candyking, who are using the flexible HIPPOBAGs™ as the primary waste disposal solution for its confectionary store …

Chesterfield 7 March 2007: Uncontrolled growth in corporate data is seen as a significant problem for major retail, distribution and transportation companies, according to a survey commissioned by B2net, an independent storage integrator. Nearly two-thirds (58 per cent) of UK companiesquestioned in the logistics and retail sectors were most concerned …

Alan Spencer and Clive Baker, dedicated Autoparts Managers for SSI Schaefer, are back once again exhibiting at Britain’s fastest growing and most successful trade only event, The Automotive Trade Show, NEC, Birmingham on 24-26 April 2007. Spencer and Baker will be on hand throughout the three day exhibition offering expert …

SITA UK has expressed its delight with today's (6th March) decision by Northumberland County Council's planning committee to approve the planning application for a new integrated waste management facility (IWMF) in West Sleekburn. The ultra-modern £11m facility will process 50,000 tonnes a year of mixed newspapers, magazines, cardboard, cans and …

In a bid to bring calm to the situation over the announcement by the WEEE Scheme Forum, that there will be no Allocation Centre. REPIC, the leading B2C WEEE compliance scheme in the UK, has confirmed it will accept free of charge any WEEE, of any category, collected through in-store …