Fullers Logistics, the key logistics partner to Masterfoods’ (formerly Mars Confectionery) site in Slough, has awarded a major contract to integrated materials handling and storage equipment company Locators to supply a range of Toyota industrial equipmen

Derrick Potter, board member of the Rail Freight Group and chairman of the Potter Group, a leading independent UK road and rail logistics service provider, has welcomed a new incentive to boost rail freight announced by the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA).

Associated British Ports (ABP) has reached a 25-year agreement with DFDS Tor Line, the Danish roll-on/roll-off shipping line, to develop a new £35M riverside terminal for unit-load traffic at the Port of Immingham. The new facility will be a 200,000sq m r

Unipart Logistics, part of the Unipart Group of Companies, has won a ten-year contract to manage a second major Boots distribution centre. The contract is part of Boots’ program of improvements to its supply chain and will result in 300 new jobs being cre

RedPrairie Corporation, a leader in global supply chain technology solutions, has bought supply chain execution provider LIS. Operating under the RedPrairie name, the enlarged group projects 2004 revenues of US$130M and has more than 600 people from offic

Westland Helicopters in Yeovil has awarded a contract worth £20M over five years to manage core elements of its post sales and repair service to Product Support Ltd (PSL), a national supply chain and packaging company based in Bedford.

The UK forklift truck industry has seen a second consecutive record year for new truck orders. Almost 30,000 powered truck unit orders were placed on British Industrial Truck Association (BITA) members in 2003, representing an 8% increase on 2002.

The Thresher Group, one of the UK’s leading independent, specialist drinks retailers, has awarded a contract valued at around £100M to Tradeteam, an Exel company, to become its sole UK drinks distributor for its 2,000 shops in the UK until 2010.

Innov@te Logistics has secured a significant contract with chilled food manufacturer Eden Vale, increasing the output from its busy Nottingham operation by almost 25%. The business win is “a real coup” according to Nottingham’s operations manager, Richard

Tibbett & Britten Group has signed a new three-year warehousing and distribution contract in the UK with O2 UK, and has become its preferred logistics partner. The company has supported O2 UK with logistics services since 1999 and, after initially providi