IGD’s 6th Retail Logistics Summit was held yesterday (November 2, 2005) at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster, with the plea for logistics professionals to “get involved and collaborate”.

TNT N.V, the Dutch Logistics and mail company, has announced that it has teamed up with Japan post, the world’s second largest mail group.

Prolock (Europe) has announced that it has become the European agent for a new range of freight container and trailer locks.

Commercial vehicle operators in Northern Ireland must take a close look at their loading and unloading arrangements, according to a warning from the Freight Transport Association (FTA).

The John David Group, owner of JD Sports has announced the acquisition of its rival Allsports for £18M.

This week Logistics Manager has launched lm-jobs.com, a specialist logistics and supply chain jobs website.

Foreign hauliers operating on UK roads are imposing wear costs of some £195M per year, according to research gathered by the National Economic Research Association (NERA).

There were three finalists in this category, but the judges also chose to consider the sole finalist in the otherwise week Process Industries category here.

Computacenter is a familiar name in the ESCE Awards, their UK operation having reached the finals in previous years. This time, however, it was the company’s German Logistics and Service Centre at Kerpen that was under the microscope.

As usual, a very disparate set of entries in this category makes comparisons invidious. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) entered specifically to gain recognition for the efforts of their team co-ordinating the initial