DHL
This coverage examines DHL’s evolving role in the UK retail and logistics landscape, offering insights for professionals overseeing supply chain strategy, e-commerce fulfilment, and last-mile delivery. It reports on DHL eCommerce UK’s merger with Evri to form a logistics powerhouse handling over 1 billion parcels annually, the appointment of retail-experienced leaders like Stuart Hill, Julian Harrison, and Laurence Sugars, and significant investments such as the £230m Coventry hub designed to process up to a million parcels daily. The reporting also addresses DHL’s strategic initiatives, including partnerships to enhance out-of-home delivery options and the launch of the Evri Premium network, providing context on how DHL is adapting to meet the demands of modern retail logistics.
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Feb- 2020 -14 FebruaryHigh Street
M&S to shutter two distribution centres putting almost 700 jobs at risk
Marks and Spencer has announced plans to shutter two of its distribution centres in spring 2021, putting nearly 700 jobs at risk. The affected sites are the Thorncliffe and Long Eaton distribution centres, which are operated by XPO and DHL respectively, and each employed around 330 staff. It comes amid…
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May- 2018 -11 MayAnalysis
The death of the UK high street
The high street as we know it is dead. Boring stores are dead. Or if they are not dead yet, they will be if retailers do nothing. The high street started to decline because retailers saw firstly that out-of- town, and then online were what customers wanted. It’s always driven…
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Apr- 2018 -17 AprilDepartment Stores
450 jobs at risk as Marks and Spencer close Hardwick facility
Marks and Spencer’s Hardwick distribution centre is set to close in September as part of a plan to transform the company’s logistic networks. The department store chain believes that a smaller network of large distribution will be faster and more cost effective. The contractors, DHL and XPO Logistics provide the…
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