Delice de France, which makes bread and pastries, has outsources its temperature-controlled warehousing to Norbert Dentressangle

Newspaper distributor Smiths News has set out its intention for further diversification so that non-newspaper and magazine operations account for more than 30 per cent of its operating profits within three years

Wincanton has been providing truckloads of water for the cast and crew of a new Hollywood film, Snow White and the Huntsman, during filming at Marloes Sands near Milford Haven

Creed Foodservice has signed a five year contract for Microlise’s Fleet performance and journey management system

Paragon has added a “dispatch smoothing” feature to its transport routeing and scheduling software to avoid bottlenecks in warehouse dispatch

Knights of Old has taken delivery of ten new Yale machines supplied by Briggs at a half a million pound warehouse development opened at Hitchin

Heysham Port has seen a 25 per cent rise in ro-ro volumes in the past six months following a £1m investment in infrastructure improvements

Swisslog has chosen Karl Puehringer to take over as head of its healthcare solutions division from 1st January

AkzoNobel has set out a programme to boost profits by 500m euros (£438m) a year – 40 per cent of which will come from supply chain and sourcing

Saga Shipping has awarded a warehousing and distribution contract to Seafield Logistics to support the consolidation of products for a cruise ship re-fit in Italy