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The four main product awards were taken home by Yale Europe Materials Handling, Hubtex UK, Still Materials Handling and Combilift at this year’s Fork Lift Truck Association awards.

NE Wholesale, the trade distributor of tyres and exhausts, is extending its deployment of Aeromark’s Aerotrack vehicle tracking software, which has helped to improve customer service and reduce operating costs.

Manhattan Associates has reported sales of £30 million ($42.8 million) for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region during 2008, a 16 per cent increase compared to the previous year.

TNT Pakketservice, part of TNT Post, has contracted FKI Logistex to design and install an energy efficient parcel sortation system at its parcel hub in Utrecht, in the Netherlands.

Brakes has won a multi-million pound contract with Irish catering contractor Aramark, with the help of Paragon Software Systems’ routeing and scheduling optimisation software.

Global transport and logistics solutions provider DSV has completed a pilot of Destiny’s digital pen and paper data capture technology in the UK.