An end-of-year report from Jones Lang LaSalle notes record-breaking performance in 2017 from the European logistics sector, particularly in terms of warehouse premises occupancy. The real estate consultancy published its Q4 2017 European Industrial & Logistics Market Insights recently, summarising key statistics from the European logistics sector for the end of the last year. It […]
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Demand for premises in the logistics sector has helped the logistics and industrial real estate category to rank as the most in-demand among European commercial real estate investors, according to the latest report from CBRE. For the first time, industrial and logistics premises are the top priority for a higher percentage of commercial real estate
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Better inventory analysis could help retailers to save on the costs associated with holding too much or too little stock, say researchers at Cardiff Business School. Academics from the school are working with their counterparts from the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Brussels-based trade association Efficient Consumer Response to identify the impact of more
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Many supply chains experience seasonality in one form or another, and this is particularly apparent in retail supply chains in the run-up to Christmas. But there are many other forms of seasonality, from changing weather conditions and temperature, to cyclical and erratic peaks in demand. An article in the January 2018 issue of Computers &
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With the Millennial generation reaching their peak years of spending and e-commerce continuing to transform the retail industry’s logistics demands, global bank Citi and the Oxford Martin School have published a report that predicts warehousing could look to the vertical to make the most of inner city real estate. In the report, they note that
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