Freight management company Ceva has amalgamated two Midlands facilities to establish one flagship freight forwarding facility at Birch Coppice Business Park in the West Midlands.

Frontier Estates has let its 318,526 sq ft warehouse Celestia in Milton Keynes to food distributor and marketing company Jenks, which wants to expand and consolidate its distribution and head office functions.

Standard Life and developer Canmoor have bought 5.2 acres of development land from drinks company Diageo in Park Royal.

Black County-based Pallet Track has acquired a new large distribution facility, as part of a major expansion programme designed to more than double its business.

In addition to leasing Ceva an 80,000 sq ft warehouse complex in Daventry, Nene Group has fitted out the warehouse with racking and ancillary products supplied through Nene’s Rentarack rack rental scheme.

West Midlands stockholder The Metal Centre has doubled hourly pick rates, from 15 to 30 per hour with the same manpower, as a result of moving to Unicompact systems supplied by Kasto from a manual handling system using conventional racking and fork lift t

James Donaldson Timber chose Hi-Store, the Hampshire-based storage specialist, for the expansion of its sawmilling, manufacturing and distribution centre at Leven in Fife. Donaldson handles some 230,000 cu m of timber a year from suppliers with green cred

Linpac Storage Systems has completed a bespoke storage solution combining wide and narrow aisle racking and a mezzanine structure for the power tools and accessories division of Techtronic Industries UK. The company’s new Didcot distribution centre suppli

Superformance, a specialist in replacement parts for Ferrari and other high-performance Italian cars, has installed additional shelving to house an increase in automotive parts.

Danwood Group chose a mix of pallet racking, two-tier carton live picking systems and mezzanine design with interconnecting conveyors for its new 100,000 sq ft distribution centre at Lincoln.