Michael Ostroumov

Navigating the Landscape of Transport Collaboration

Transport collaboration offers huge economic and environmental benefits but also faces challenges like trust deficit and information shortages. Successful collaborative operations require clear communication, trust-building and advanced tech.

James Middleton

Introducing FLOX: Your New Logistics Orchestration Platform

Value Chain Lab announces exciting transition from Stowga to an innovative On-Demand Logistics Orchestration Platform

Chris Clowes

Navigating the Modern-Day Supply Chain: Adapting to the Demands of a Fast-Paced World

Examining the endurance of human roles in the face of swift technological progress and the intricacies induced by globalisation within contemporary supply chain management processes.

Michael Ostroumov

GUIDE TO SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT JARGON (PART 2)

Definitions of X-Party Logistics providers are often confusing. Understanding of the types, especially the 5PL, will help you choose a model with the best fit to your business.

Chris Clowes

State of the LogTech sector (March 2023)

Over the years, the sector saw strong growth and progress in automation and advanced analytics. However, not everything went as expected. Now a range of innovative solutions targets further increases in logistics operations efficiency.

Michael Ostroumov

Guide to Supply Chain Management Jargon (part 1)

Companies and managers constantly use jargon whilst talking about their specialist topic. Supply chain and logistics management is no exception.

Michael Ostroumov

The next step in evolution of management & operational productivity systems

Despite massive improvements in analytical capabilities and applications of AI, companies still produce greater results by implementing operational productivity systems rather than management productivity ones

Chris Clowes

Hitting an Excel spreadsheet wall

As enterprises grow over reliance on Excel spreadsheets, especially for planning, operational and financial controls becomes problematic

Chris Clowes

After years of Supply Chain chaos, what will 2023 bring (continued)?

The bullwhip effect created by supply chain disruptions over the past few years highlighted limitations of traditional approaches to management of agile supply chains

Chris Clowes

After years of Supply Chain chaos, what will 2023 bring?

The recent supply chain disruptions created dramatic shifts in the way companies think about organising and managing their logistics operations going forward.

Peter Bahnik

Improving agility to beat supply chain chaos

When it comes to supply chains, improving agility isn’t a nice to have, it’s an essential requirement.

Michael Ostroumov

Web3.0 innovation to change logistics services with major cost savings, reduced pollution & traffic congestion

Peter Bahnik

Australian Industrial Market: Chronic shortage of warehouse space

Australia's industrial property market the ‘tightest in the world', with vacancy rates tumbling to just 0.8% in the first half of 2022.

James Middleton

Cambridge University and VCL establish proof-of-concept for collaborative shipping

Stowga parent Value Chain Lab (VCL) initiated a study to explore the potential of shared economies and collaborative shipping.

James Middleton

Warehousing: Invest or Outsource?

We examine this question in the context of technological shifts within the warehouse industry, as we examine whether businesses should invest in their own warehousing or simply pay a specialist to do it for them.

James Middleton

Stowga and Goodwill Solutions building one-stop shop for full supply chain solutions

Warehouse services provider Goodwill Solutions has partnered with Stowga to further develop a global supply chain platform.

James Middleton

When unpredictability is normal, supply chain agility is critical

A perfect storm of events including Covid, Brexit, and driver shortages have exposed weaknesses in rigid supply chain designs. With unpredictability and volatility here to stay, greater flexibility and real-time agility are essential for sustained success.

James Middleton

Stowga warehousing marketplace scales up to drive On-Demand Logistics reality

Stowga Marketplace has been acquired by Value Chain Lab (VCL) to scale up its On-Demand Logistics platform.

Thibault Guenat

December's data insights & warehousing industry news

What is the impact of Brexit on stockpiling? How is Brexit affecting the supply and demand in warehousing? Is there still warehousing space available in the UK? Should I stockpile? Let's dive in...

James Middleton

Introducing Deep Storage Warehousing by Stowga

Deep Storage, for businesses with static inventory to store their product in a safe, cost-effective manner.

Thibault Guenat

Stowga wins 3 awards in Retail and Logistics

Stowga wins 3 awards, celebrating all the hard work the team has been putting in developing the Stowga Marketplace and growing the business.

James Middleton

Stowga's Startup Guide to Warehousing Part 2

We’ve put this guide together to help demystify the world of logistics and warehousing for any business looking to set up or optimise their supply chain. This time we look at choosing a warehouse.

Sameena Ashraf

New Ways For Warehouses To Acquire Customers

What methods have been used by warehouse operators in the past to acquire customers? How useful are these channels in the modern-day digital economy? What other new ways are there to acquire customers?

James Middleton

Stowga's Startup Guide to Warehousing Part 1

We’ve put this guide together to help demystify the world of logistics and warehousing for any entrepreneur, startup or growth business looking to set up and optimise their supply chain.

James Middleton

Case study: Asda and Oakland International fighting the "Christmas Bulge"

How Stowga unlocks additional warehousing capacity to help companies deal with their Christmas peak and other seasonal demand increases.

Sameena Ashraf

How Stowga Helped Bootleg O'Donnell Moonshine Into New Markets

What is bonded warehousing? How difficult is it to find warehousing space for craft spirits?

Joey Scully

The Hunt for the Golden Triangle

Where is it? What makes it golden? And is it really the best place for everyone?

Thibault Guenat

How Vimto created a ‘liquid’ supply chain

Century old drinks company Nichols worked with Stowga to developed a flexible and efficient network of warehouses all over the country, removing the burden of finding, owning and managing the warehouses themselves.

Thibault Guenat

WAREHOUSE DEMAND REPORT – JUNE 2018.

We capture a lot of data on the Stowga marketplace and know about all the import / export happening in the UK. We draw insights from the data to understand how the warehousing market is evolving and to know what products are going to be 'in season'.

Charlie Pool

Weighted centre of UK warehousing

Stowga analysts dig deep in to the data science to discover the centre of the UK warehouse industry.

James Middleton

Stockpiling for a no-deal Brexit – How to get ready?

How can logistics professionals take lessons in adaptability and fluidity from Kung Fu legend Bruce lee and apply them to supply chains. The Bruce Lee approach to Supply Chain optimisation.

Charlie Pool

Financial market thinking applied to warehousing

Type in “How will b” into Google and Google will start to complete the question for you. The top suggestion: “How will Brexit affect my business”?

Charlie Pool

Diamond Logistics and Pi-top case study

Diamond Logistics and pi-top have been using Stowga warehousing-as-a-service for about a year – we take a look back at what happened and how they’ve both grown thanks to it

Charlie Pool

Warehousing as a Service

Let’s face it, retail has never been tougher. From Brexit to hyper-demanding consumers, eCommerce giants to innovative start-ups, remaining profitable is incredibly challenging and agility has become essential in every area of the business.

Sameena Ashraf

International Women’s Day – Stowga

”Big dreams begin in small spaces"

Thibault Guenat

STOWGA SHORTLISTED FOR PROPERTY AWARD 2018 - TWICE

Stowga has been selected as a finalist in two categories.

James Middleton

What's Mine is Yours: The sharing economy in logistics

Exploring the role of the sharing economy in the context of the logistics industry.

Charlie Pool

Funding Thoughts.

Raising a seed round - some reflections for founders.

Joey Scully

A look ahead to 2018.

We are tremendously excited to have successfully raised £1.5m and have brought in talented investors with a plethora of experience in scaling businesses and accelerating growth.

Charlie Pool

EG: Industrial and Logistics Summit 2017.

Charlie Pool has been invited to speak about 'revolutionising logistics' at the annual Industrial & Logistics summit hosted by Estates Gazette on November 21, 2017.

Thibault Guenat

Stowga & Gazeley Partnership.

Stowga recently launched the world's first bespoke capacity trading marketplace for IDI Gazeley's Magna Park.

Charlie Pool

Stowga wins Wired's Startup Showcase.

Most of the companies at Wired Retail focus on the 'front-end': how to sell more or get customers to buy more. We at Stowga focus on the back-end.

Charlie Pool

Delivery and Logistics – WIRED Retail.

Most of the companies at Wired Retail focus on the 'front-end': how to sell more or get customers to buy more. We at Stowga focus on the back-end.

Charlie Pool

Why on-demand?

We explore the reasons why companies are adopting on-demand warehousing.

Charlie Pool

Stowga at WIRED RETAIL 2017.

Stowga has been invited to speak at Wired Retail 2017.

James Middleton

What is on-demand warehousing?

The Oxford English Dictionary defines on-demand as "soon as or whenever required”. We explore what that means for on-demand warehousing.

James Middleton

Embrace your Space

Is the market for warehouse space supply constrained or simply not accessible? We look at the impact of utilising spare capacity within existing warehouses and the overall impact on the market for space.

Joe Corkerton

Toy Story.

How on-demand warehousing saves companies in the toy industry money.

Charlie Pool

Distributed Warehousing

We take a look at the trend around distributed warehousing, its benefits, and the opportunities it unlocks.

Charlie Pool

Inside the Stowga Logistics Tech Event.

On 13th July 2017, Stowga orchestrated the world's first Logistics Tech meetup on TRADE.

Charlie Pool

What is proptech?

A beginners guide to Proptech: definition, innovation in the UK and abroad.

Joe Corkerton

Brexit Analysis Part II: Who are the Key Trading Partners?

In the second part of our Brexit analysis, we look into which trading partners would be the most impactful for the UK to secure a good trade deal with.

Joe Corkerton

Brexit Analysis Part I: Deal or No Deal?

The Data Science team looks into what would happen if we crash out of the EU without a trade deal.

Charlie Pool

EG Interview: Industrial Revolution.

Estates Gazette interviews Charlie Pool, our CEO, about the needs of the logistics market on which Stowga was founded.

Charlie Pool

Bimodal Warehousing.

In a world that is rapidly changing, uncertainty is a given.

Joe Corkerton

Some Truths in a 'Post-truth' Era.

We don’t know what the long-term consequences of Brexit will be. But it’s already had an effect on the UK’s trade with the world. Here's what we've seen so far in import and export data.

Joey Scully

Free Trade Templates and Brexit.

Remain or leave - is this argument really still going on? As with everything, we think its worth looking beneath the rhetoric, fear-mongering and blind belief to see how Brexit could affect various parts of the UK's trade and economy.

Joey Scully

Brand and Identity.

Early Investment in brand and identity work can seem like a crazy use of limited capital at a startup. However, as you shape the product you develop a greater the sense of a customers expectation.

Charlie Pool

Stowga in the Top 10 Startups in Logistics.

RocketSpace kicked off 2017 by announcing the 10 most promising logistics startups across six countries

Charlie Pool

Mapping the UK Warehousing Market.

One of the first things we did was set about mapping the market. We needed to size both the supply and the demand and we thought it would be an easy job...

Charlie Pool

Logistics Jargon Buster

Every industry has its jargon. So we’ve put together this helpful guide to assist you understand the language of logistics

Charlie Pool

Importing Organic Produce

A few pointers about the requirements for importing organic goods from countries outside the EU.

Joey Scully

November Warehouse Demand Report.

What a month! It will come as no surprise to any of you in the industry that October is a busy month for warehouses but we weren’t expecting that — demand was through the roof!

Joey Scully

September Warehouse Demand Report.

We just got to the end of our first full month of trading and we have learned a lot. The nature of the business, connecting those who need warehouses to those that have capacity, means we are gathering some incredible data from across the industry.