Unipart Logistics has appointed Sharon Thomas managing director of Unipart Consumer Logistics. She joins from Woolworths where she was director of supply chain.

Dürkopp Fördertechnik has completed work on an automated hanging garment sortation and picking system for Next’s national hanging garment distribution centre

Felixstowe-based LM Logistics has joined the Pall-Ex network to service postcodes in the Ipswich area.

Wabco has appointed Ceva to manage its logistics and export services in the Middle East, North Africa and Indian subcontinent.

Chris Sturman has been appointed chief executive of the Food Storage and Distribution Federation

FKI Logistex has been divided into two separate operations with the UK business retaining the FKI Logistex name

Zebra Technologies is set to launch the Economy Mobile 220, a small, lightweight portable barcode printer designed for quick, on-demand receipt printing.

The Norbert Dentressangle Group has posted a 23 per cent rise in operating profit before goodwill and impairment of goodwill to 98.2 million euros in 2008, up from 79.8 million euros the previous year.

It sounds really simply – get six things right and you too can have a top-performing supply chain. It’s only when you examine the six management principles identified by consultants McKinsey that you realise quite what a challenge you face

Pastacorp has introduced CHEP’s Total Equipment Management facility and signed a contract with for some 240,000 pallet movements a year at its manufacturing plant in Chiry Ourscamps, L’Oise, Northern France.