We hear all the time about the power of social media, but that power was demonstrated with a vengeance last week when a leading supply chain professional found himself at the centre of a storm with questions being asked in parliament

Telematics firm Masternaut has acquired data service provider E.Novation BTC, allowing it to offer wireless tachograph management

Women’s fashion group Uttam London has awarded its contract for end-to-end logistics operations to Torque

French sports retailer, Decathlon, has acquired its first UK distribution Centre

Motion control equipment firm INMOCO has released an EtherCAT master module to enable high-speed, multi-vendor motion and control systems

IM Properties has begun the speculative development of two logistics units at its 400 acre Birch Coppice Business Park in the West Midlands

Allied Bakeries is putting an additional 73 Iveco Eurocargos into service to support a major new nationwide contract

Brother has launched a range of TD-2000 mobile label and receipt printers

Bürkert has released a universal control head, the type 8681

Wincanton has taken an 85,000 sq ft warehouse at Hortons’ Estate’s Marchington Industrial Estate in Staffordshire