By Mark R. Smith, Contributing Writer First things first: inflation, supply chain issues and a flat stock market were not the talking points anyone would expect to inspire optimism when talking about the retail industry. With that observation out of…
Navigating the Trucking Market in 2023
By Adam Robinson, CEO, The Robinson Agency 2022 was a wild ride for the freight market, with immense fluctuations and unanticipated events. Prices of spot truckload freight saw wide disparities, diesel fuel hit record highs, and spot truckload capacity variability…
Site Preparation: A Key for Attracting Investment and Growth
Shovel-ready sites are an advantage to businesses because they take much of the time, expenditure, unpredictability, and risk out of the site selection process. Shovel ready sites are more likely to catch the eye of corporate site selectors or site…
Logistics: A Supply Chain Under Strain
By Michael D. White, author and freelance writer It’s said that any chain is no stronger than its weakest link with this past year proving that that ages-old bromide has never been truer. It is critical here to understand that,…
Data Center Sector to Expand Exponentially
By Mark R. Smith, Contributing Writer With data centers, there isn’t much of a gray area. To most observers who live, work or play around these often immense structures, they’re rather dull but necessary monoliths. They can lifelessly loom along…
Plastics: Projections Rising with Demand for Biodegradable
By Mark R. Smith, Contributing Writer While the expression “It’s complicated” is generally used by people in various and sundry settings to describe some of life’s less-workable situations, it’s not such a tired cliché as it applies to the plastics…