Millwood, Inc. (www.millwoodinc.com), an industry leading solution provider of unit load and packaging materials and services, has launched a newly-designed website. The redesign focused on creating a site that is cleaner, more informative, simple to navigate and easier to use. The new site brings together content and contact information from … [Read more...]
Ultima Foods Selects CHEP Pallet Program to Improve Pallet Quality and Administration, Food Safety and Customer Service
June 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ultima Foods, Inc., one of the leading Canadian producers and distributors of yogurt and fresh dairy products, has signed a new contract to transport its products on pallets from CHEP. Ultima Foods now ships Yoplait yogurt and other fresh dairy products on CHEP pallets from the company’s plant in Granby, Quebec to supermarkets, mass retailers, … [Read more...]
Loscam Pallets: Metro Moves to Standardise Returnable Packaging in Vietnam
December 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
Ho Chi Minh City was the venue for Metro's vendor workshop on step change, and it was open to all suppliers of the cash-and-carry operation who wanted to know more about process transformation. The Vietnamese firm outlined their plans for expansion, detailing their central warehouse functions, pallet handling and quality assurance as proponents to … [Read more...]
Bob Moore of iGPS Wins Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010
November 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Bob Moore, Chairman, CEO, iGPS, has been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 national winner in the Emerging category. Now in its 24th year, Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year® is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The award encourages entrepreneurial activity and recognizes leaders … [Read more...]
Bob Moore, iGPS CEO, Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
June 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Bob Moore, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC), was named by Ernst & Young as Florida's Entrepreneur of the Year in the Emerging industries category. "I am grateful to receive this honor from Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year," said Moore, who founded iGPS in 2006. "I … [Read more...]
Brambles CEO Bullish on Future
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
BRAMBLES is bullish about the Australian economy and the company's outlook overseas was not as bad as some people perhaps thought it should be. Brambles' business in Australia was in "good shape'' and it was "pretty positive and bullish'' on the Australian economy, chief executive Tom Gorman told an American Chamber of Commerce in … [Read more...]
UK Plastic Crates And Pallet Company Expands
May 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
May 25, 2010 by Jenny Pilley (OfficialWire) MEASHAM, DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND PPS specialises in the rental, management and washing of plastic crates and plastic pallets and has established a solid reputation servicing a number of blue chip companies, primarily in the food sectors. However, the ambitions of the owners of the business were such … [Read more...]
Bunnings Must Pay CHEP $11 Million for Failure to Return
May 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
The New South Wales (Australia) Supreme Court has determined that retail hardware chain Bunnings must pay $10.98 million plus interest to CHEP. This outcome was determined after discovery that Bunnings stores had failed to return over 80,000 of their pallets. According to www.lawyersweekly.com.au, the NSWCourt determined that Bunnings was "liable … [Read more...]
Pallet Service Provider IPP Logipal Secures Contract with Brecon Carreg
May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Leading one-way trip pallet exponent, IPP Logipal has signed up another customer in the food and drink sector after securing a new contract with Brecon Carreg, the Welsh natural mineral water producer. Brecon Carreg is sourced deep within the Brecon Beacons National Park, an area of outstanding natural beauty. Since 1983, the company has been … [Read more...]
Scenes from the Truckstop: Dumping Pallets in Polk City FL
May 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Ultimately, the success of a reusable pallet or container program is determined by front line execution. Follow the link to an interesting video from YouTube, capturing the frustration of a truck driver ordered by his dispatcher to dump limited use but likely reusable wood pallets. The driver indicated he would have dropped off the pallets at a … [Read more...]
