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Modular buildings firm Portakabin has bought a 200,000 sq ft development site at the Iselport Business Park in Somerset from DTZ

Food service firm Fresh Direct has taken delivery of 39 7.5 tonne Isuzu rigid distribution trucks to follow its 2009 order of 20 trucks from Isuzu

Royal Mail Group has awarded a multi million pound contract for the supply of its materials handling equipment to Briggs Equipment, the distributor of Yale trucks

Jamie Oliver’s home-ware brand Jamie at Home has taken on Logistex to fit out its Eastleigh distribution centre with a warehouse management system from LWS Reflex software

The Volvo Trucks Driver Challenge 2012 has been won by DHL for B&Q driver Edward Fowell

Tyre specialist ATS Euromaster has appointed Peter Tye as group operations director retail, and Columba Zaal as group operations director comprehensive

CollectPlus has installed its new Parcel Point service at the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield, which acts as a drop box for leaving parcels or collecting online orders

Kerry Logistics has bought 592,000 sq ft of land in Thailand in order to build a 377,000 sq ft logistics centre for the automotive sector

Agility has opened a fourth branch in Sarvar, Hungary, to support computer firm Lenovo’s assembly lines and fulfill its print-on-demand requirements