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What is a company’s brand? When trying to picture one, many people think of the company’s logo. According to Forbes, Apple has the most valuable brand in the world, worth $145.3 Billion. But what does that mean? If Apple sold their “brand” (logo?) to another company, would it be worth the same?  Probably not. Not…

What if you heard about a business that enjoyed double-digit sales growth every year? The good news is, if you offer warehousing services, there’s a good chance that you are already involved in that business. Ecommerce continued its unprecedented growth in 2014, clocking a 13.2% increase in sales. And ecommerce’s share of overall retail sales…

Whether you call them “driver-less semis”, “autonomous trucks” or “self-driving transports”, one thing is virtually guaranteed: in the not-too-distant future, your distribution, 3PL or transportation company will pick-up and deliver goods using transport trucks that do not have a human at the controls. The Big Question is: When? There’s been a lot of publicity surrounding…

It’s not like anyone in the distribution business wants to think about any hypothetical situations. The pace of real changes in the marketplace, from ecommerce businesses to driver-less transport trucks, keeps us busy enough. But a recent news story grabbed our imagine and got us daydreaming about the implications of its subject for 3PLs and…

The lines between who does what, especially on the internet, are increasingly blurred. Google is the dominant internet search engine and Amazon is the dominant ecommerce retailer. Yet the two are direct, fierce competitors. For what? Warehouse distribution centres. As ecommerce continues to grow at unprecedented rates, the two web giants want their share of…