St Paul’s Developments is playing its trump card at its 85 acre Brookfields Park development in Yorkshire.

Sports nutrition company Maxi Muscle has secured the Industrial Property Invest Fund’s 33,266 sq ft Unit 1 warehouse at Swallow Lane, Hemel Hempstead on a new 15-year term at an initial rent equating to £7.65 per sq ft.

John Guest Group, the manufacturer of push-in fittings, pipes and plastic plumbing systems has paid Goodman Property Investors £9 million for Focus, an industrial unit in Bracknell. The firm will occupy the 65,525 sq ft industrial / warehouse unit, as wel

Primary chilled distribution service provider NFT Distribution has secured a deal on a 222,752 sq ft warehouse at DIRFT Logistics Park, Daventry, Northamptonshire.

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