Amazon.com customers now can shop for groceries alongside lipstick, treadmills, textbooks, DVDs and auto parts.
The online retailer announced on Monday its entry into what industry analysts project will be a 4.2 billion USD market this year.
Amazon Grocery is selling more than 14,000 non-perishable grocery items and household supplies, mostly in bulk.
Read MoreThe Swedish Crawford Group, one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of industrial doors and loading bay equipment being the market leader in Europe, has signed a five year contract for distribution, warehousing and logistics services with DHL.
The new contract, which has a term of five years, includes a whole range of services comprising delivery to end customers in all European contries, worldwide distribution of parts, intercompany traffic between Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands to handle and stock control at these locations.
Read MoreSPEED printer Xpress Holdings, in an effort to inject greater professionalism into the once family-run company, has hired former senior DHL Express executive Poh Eng Seng to spearhead its global expansion plans.
Mr Poh, a DHL veteran of 17 years and who is now director of strategic planning and business development, will be responsible for charting the strategic business development plan for the group’s pre-press and printing services, and enhance its distribution network and logistics management systems, a company statement said.
Read MoreThe best part of the facility, says Chandrasekhar Pitre, head, marketing, DHL Express India, is that from the moment of checking-in till despatch the package need not touch the ground. The conveyor belt system allows for this, adds Pitre.
The facility is equipped with weighing dimensional labelling machine for weighing, radio frequency scanners, powered conveyer belts and other machinery. It has next-generation data scanners for data transfer from anywhere in Bangalore, and access controlled movement among others.
Read MoreThe Middle East Logistics Report 2006 is packed full of useful macro-economic data, providing an ideal background to the growth of the express and logistics industries in the region. Included in the report are statistics on trade, GDP and demographic figures for the region as well as individual countries.
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