Given the events of the past year, it is not surprising that minds have been focused on making supply chains more resilient. But that is all about to be formalised with a new international standard ISO 28002:2011.

Premier Foods, which makes Hovis bread and Branston pickle, is looking for £20 million in savings from logistics and head office restructuring

The Channel Islands Co-operative Society is to extend voice picking to its Guernsey depot

Marketing firm MDA has outsourced its transport operations to City Link

Energy Minister Charles Hendry has given the go-ahead for a 900MW gas power plant at the London Gateway Logistics Park, which is being developed on the old Shellhaven site at Coryton in Essex

Mitsubishi has created three new ranges of forklift cabins – the VersaCab, PlusCab and ProCab ranges, for use on the 1.5 to 5.5 tonne Grendia family of diesel and LPG trucks

Online grocer Ocado is to open a distribution depot at Stanford-in-the-Vale between Oxford and Swindon from where it will distribute 10,000 orders per week

Procter & Gamble has enlisted Savoye to develop an automated order preparation system for its distribution centre in Bournemouth which handles cosmestics and perfumes

Shell and Goodyear have sponsored the FTA’s Transport Manager series of seminars which will take place across the UK from September to November

MAN’s operating profit grew by 88 per cent to 762m euros in the first half of 2011. This increase is due mainly to MAN Truck & Bus, which contributed €274 million