British Airways has extended its relationship with Gist, to manage the receipt, handling and despatch of all of its in-flight retail (IFR) products.

Translift Bendi, is launching its biggest range of forklift trucks for years.

SEV has won a £400,000 contract with the Stiller Group for equipment to operate the recently extended, 340,000sq ft warehouse and distribution facility in Darton, South Yorkshire.

Geoff Newton, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, has left the institute after little more than a year in the job.

FDB Distribution has launched a contract packing service. Director Francis De Beer says: “We saw an opportunity, noticing we were storing goods, picking to orders and delivering to local packers on behalf of customers. This is also saving transport costs.

Logistics Link South 2006 had a record 1,937 attendees – a massive 14 per cent increase on last year’s event.

RedPrairie has announced that it has completed the acquisition of MARC Global Holdings.

Figures released from the DVLA this week show that only 10,640 Smart cards have been issued to drivers in the UK.

Kuehne and Nagel has won a five-year contract to manage national spare parts warehousing for Japanese carmaker Toyota.

Tradeteam, an Exel company and now part of DHL, has won a four-year contract with Mitchells & Butlers, the leading operator of managed pubs and restaurants in the UK.