Industrial landlord Segro has agreed a short-term letting at Heywood Distribution Park with Royal Mail to help accommodate the company’s Christmas rush.

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.

Supply Chain Standard is hosting a live web TV debate in association with Oracle to look at the challenges of achieving visibility in complex global supply chains and the role technology has to play

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.

TGW Systems Integration and Crisplant have been awarded a contract to install state-of-the-art warehouse and distribution systems in a new logistics centre for clothing retailer, Bestseller, in Haderslev, Denmark.

Retriever Logistics has opened parcel collection points for online shopping at Brantano footwear stores in Hull, Sheffield and Stockton-on-Tees.

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.

Air cargo demand is expected to grow by seven per cent to 37.7 million tonnes in 2010, according to the latest analysis by the International Air Transport Association