KNW Retail Solutions, the joint venture between Kuehne & Nagel and Wincanton, has been contracted by Hamleys to act as its international supply chain management partner. Following a comprehensive tender process, KNW’s ability to provide innovative supply

TNT Express Services has won its longest ever contract – a multimillion pound agreement with the Government spanning a quarter-of-a-century – to archive, store and manage 12 million files which, if placed end-to-end, would occupy more than 200km of shelf.

Royal Mail is providing warehousing, fulfilment and returns management for goods auctioned live on television for television auction company Auctionworld.tv.

Colgate-Palmolive has contracted P&O Ferrymasters to distribute up to 700 loads a year from Anzio in Italy to the UK. The deal covers products ranging from toothpastes and toothbrushes to bar soap, household cleaners, shower and bath products.

The Government says it will not intervene in the planning decision concerning the latest expansion proposals for the DIRFT Logistics Park..

Considerable expansion is planned at overnight palletised distribution network PalletFORCE’s central hub on Fradley Park Estate near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

The newly-built 3,450sq m regional distribution centre developed by Stoke-on-Trent Regeneration for Littlewoods’ home shopping delivery arm Business Express at the 400-acre Trentham Lakes has been sold to a private investor for £2.5M.

Dynamic Europe, the European distribution and servicing arm of the New Zealand-based supplier of control systems for powered wheelchairs and scooters, is moving from Kidderminster to a 1,472sq m speculatively built facility on the Stonebridge Cross Busine

Property company Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) says that distribution “still remains the most active sector” in the Rugby and Lutterworth commercial property market and will develop further in the future.

Kitchen and bedroom furniture distributor Waterline has expanded its operations in Newport Pagnell by taking on an extra 4,197sq m of industrial/warehouse property. The company has acquired the unit, known as Interchange Point on the Interchange Park near