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US Foods Plan DC to Serve New England Customers

US Foods plans to open a distribution center in Seabrook, N.H. to better serve its customers throughout New England. The company currently services this customer base from its facility in Peabody, Mass., which has approximately 188,000 square feet. The new facility will offer more than 500,000 square feet of space, including additional dry and cold storage and fleet fueling and maintenance areas.

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Middle East Expands as Global Hub

The Middle East offers "extremely lucrative" opportunities for companies able to take advantage of the region's emergence as a global logistics hub, said Essa Al-Saleh, president and CEO of Agility Global Integrated Logistics.

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Goodman Rolls out $1.4bn U.S. Development Plan

Goodman Group, Australia's largest listed industrial property group, announced that its wholly owned North American subsidiary, Goodman Birtcher, has launched development of a $150m logistics center at Rancho Cucamonga in the Inland Empire West market of Southern California.

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Best Practices in Site Selection

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Oxford Properties Plans to Double Industrial Portfolio by 2018

Oxford Properties' industrial real estate portfolio has topped the 10 million-square-foot mark, and it intends to double its size by 2018.

The Global Footprint of Asian Supply Chains

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RFID Is Back! And It's the Key to Supply-Chain Visibility

Decades after its debut, radio frequency identification technology is finally poised to realize its potential in the retail sector.

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How Railroads Are Investing in Transportation's Future

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Prologis Unveils Plans for Facilities in Japan

Industrial real estate investment trust Prologis Inc. disclosed that it will develop three inventory logistics facilities in Japan. These facilities will span 3.2 million square feet of space and offer its clientele central distribution to Tokyo and the neighboring metropolitan area.

Was Toyota's Move to Texas Because of Lower Taxes - or Location, Location, Location?

Toyota's plan to close its Torrance headquarters and ship 3,000 jobs to a Dallas suburb has triggered a new round of hand-wringing among those who see business-friendly Texas gaining at the expense of regulation-choked California.

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How Logistics Helps Whirlpool Stay Competitive

We speak incessantly about the impact of "consumer demand" on manufacturers' supply chains. But do we really understand what that term means?

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Puerto Rico Lands Lufthansa Maintenance Facility

Lufthansa Technik and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have announced an agreement to create an aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility to service short-haul and medium-haul aircraft.

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