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Volume 15, Issue 6
1 June 1987
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Retail and Distribution Management
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Review Article| June 01 1987

GUSCO opens new distribution centre: New automated high bay warehouse

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2396-9083
Print ISSN: 0307-2363
© MCB UP Limited
1987
Retail and Distribution Management (1987) 15 (6): 58–60.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018357

An impressive high bay warehouse with an operating height of 13.6m is the focal point of the new GUSCO distribution centre at Eccles, near Manchester. It combines human resources with computerised materials handling. GUSCO is the largest catalogue shopping organisation in the UK, with an annual turnover well in excess of £1bn.

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