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GT - JULY 2009 - UK recession celebrates first birthday

VIEW THE DIGITAL EDITION NOW - Welcome to the July Grocery Trader. We’re now midway through a very tough year all round. The latest ONS figures show the UK economy contracted 2.4% in the first three months of this year, the worst such drop since the second quarter of 1958. The ONS now reckons the current recession began during the second quarter of last year, which means we’ve been officially in recession for a year. Not a happy birthday. Life goes on at The Grocery Trader - we have features... 

WLN - July 15th - Getting fighting fit for the recovery

VIEW THIS DIGITAL EDITION NOW - Welcome to the 15 July Warehouse & Logistics News. The UK’s only fortnightly for the industry, WLN is dedicated to helping you keep your business in good shape for the recovery whenever it may come. Is the UK on the road to recovery? It depends who you ask. The IMF now expects the economy to expand by 0.2% next year, not shrink 0.4% as they thought before. The British Chambers of Commerce say the worst is over, but qualify it by then saying talk of a recovery... 

WLN - July 1st - Halfway there - the darkest night of the economy

VIEW THIS DIGITAL EDITION NOW - Welcome to the July 1 Warehouse & Logistics News. We’re now halfway through a miserable year for business, with most of us relying on the sunshine, the long light evenings and the wealth of great summer sporting fixtures to distract us from the realisation that we’re now in the darkest night of the economy, with unemployment rising faster than any time since the 1980s. The message is there in the music. 60’s veterans Crosby Stills & Nash have just played... 

WLN - June 15th - Economic recovery - written on pallets, or in the stars?

VIEW THIS DIGITAL EDITION NOW - Welcome to the 15th June issue of Warehouse & Logistics News. TIMCON President John Dye told TIMCON’s recent AGM that he was ‘cautiously optimistic’ that the decline in demand for timber pallets is slowing. In his speech Mr Dye reckoned there are signs that the bottom of the market may be in sight, an indication of recovery to follow. If you don’t trust the pallets, you can always try the astrologers. That well-known management consultancy company Russell... 

WLN - February 1st - A new President - A new Hope?

Welcome to the 1 February Warehouse & Logistics News. Whether you live in Washington DC, or Washington, County Durham, the biggest news at the moment has to be Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the USA. We’ve had since November to come to terms with this, and now it’s here. The election of a man of mixed race as President is a milestone for America, with its sad history of slavery, then segregation, and in our days, the continuing major gap in life prospects between black... 

GT - February 2009 - Still plenty of grocery opportunities to seize

Welcome to the February Grocery Trader, dedicated to helping you maximise the grocery retail opportunity in your business. Talking of opportunities, apparently it turns out to be a misperception that the Chinese word for “crisis” is composed of elements that signify “danger” and “opportunity.” People often say this, but one Victor H. Mair, a Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Pennsylvania University, insists they’re mistaken. There are still plenty of grocery opportunities... 

WLN - January 15th - Come on arctic monkeys, we’re ready for you!

Welcome to the 15 January Warehouse & Logistics News, and a warm hello to our hard-working readers who have kept the UK’s warehouses and logistics operations going during the cold snap. Never mind brass monkeys, it’s been cold enough to injure an Arctic one, but thanks to your efforts the country has kept going. It’s certainly been a chilly start to the year in the retail sector, which in turn means a ‘frost’ for warehousing and logistics professionals. The weather will eventually get... 

GT - January 2009 - Here’s to 2009! The only way is up

Happy New Year, and welcome to the January Grocery Trader. We hope you are refreshed and in good health after Christmas. It’s time for New Year resolutions, so here is ours - to greet 2009 with a cheerful, positive attitude, whatever happens. These are hard times, all right, but like the companies whose news we report in the magazine, on our web site and in our email newsletter every month, we’re committed to winning through. In this lean but muscular issue, we’ve got interviews with Wing Yip,...