BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions UK has appointed Mark Richards as General Manager and Tim Pulleyn as his successor as Head of Partner Sales. Richards (pictured) is a highly experienced industry professional with over 25 years’ experience, having previously held roles at both GE Capital and Hitachi. ...

Brittany Ferries, the largest ferry company operating under the French flag, and the CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, have announced that CMA CGM has agreed to make a €25m investment in Brittany Ferries, including €10m in quasi-equity. Through this agreement, CMA CGM is s...

Big Box Group has announced that Lucie Stephenson has been appointed Head of Marketing. Stephenson, previously Product Manager at Haribo UK and Marketing Manager at Costcutter Supermarkets Group, brings a wealth of marketing knowledge to Big Box Group as it continues to grow and establish itself in ...

Graduates of the Cranfield Master’s in Logistics and Supply Chain Management are the most employable in the UK, according to the latest QS Global Rankings. The Cranfield MSc was rated first in the UK and 7th in the world for employability, and was named in the UK top 10 for diversity (3rd), tho...

FourKites, a leading real-time supply chain visibility platform, has announced that its European customer conference, Visibility 2021, will be held virtually on 7th October. The theme of this year’s conference, “Go Beyond,” presents a bold vision for supply chains of the future, centred around...

Briggs Equipment’s fleet of short-term hire equipment has been busy throughout 2021, helping some of the biggest events in the UK’s sporting calendar prosper. Working closely alongside partners Arena Group, a wide range of equipment including access products, forklifts and JCB rough terrain mach...

An official partner of the 25th James Bond film, No Time To Die, CMA CGM granted filmmaker EON Productions unprecedented access to Kingston Container Terminal in Jamaica to shoot an action sequence with a seaplane, and the vessel Fort Saint Georges features in the film when Bond is rescued from the ...

FedEx Express has launched its Small Business Grant Competition in Europe. The competition offers a total grant pool of nearly €250,000 to European small businesses to help them grow and achieve their ambitions. For the first time, the competition will be run as a single pan-European contest, open...

A simple-to-use track-and-trace system that collects measurements and images of incoming stock or packaged goods and turns them into valuable Master Data is being launched in the UK by sensor manufacturer SICK with a free trial offer. The SICK Master Data Analyzer is already deployed at hundreds of ...

Lithion Recycling and UgoWork have signed a collaboration agreement for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries developed by UgoWork for the material handling market. The agreement includes recycling tests of several generations of batteries produced by UgoWork at Lithion’s demonstration plant. In ...