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British shoppers spent £5.3 billion in November, yet seasonal trends show that consumers are still holding out for further sales and price cuts in the run up to Christmas, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.

SCALA Consulting has launched “The Fresh Connection” – an innovative supply chain management competition and learning programme designed to help organisations train their employees in a safe environment.

Foster’s EMEA has chosen Cert Octavian for its distribution with a contract that covers its EMEA business for three years from May 2010 with an additional two year option.

Northside Truck & Van has bought a fleet of ten smart cars from smart of York to run as courtesy vehicles – with customers swapping their usual Mercedes-Benz trucks or vans for the two-seaters.

It sounds like a nice little Christmas gift – £110 billion. Consultants Booz and Company calculate that this is how much excess working capital is sloshing around in British companies.

Ranbaxy Laboratories, the global generics company of the Daiichi-Sankyo Group, has signed a contract with NYK Logistics (UK) to handle all products destined for the UK market.