Receivers At Rockwood

• The receivers have been called in to Rockwood Holdings following the collapse of a plan to sell off a substantial part of the group. Hong Kong businessman Lee Ming Tee......

No Bovver: Hover

• Isle of Wight-based MWV Transport is teaming up with a hovercraft operator to offer next-day parcel deliveries to and from Europe. The six-year-old parcels and general haulier......

Riding For Growth

• Pony Express plans to double its business in London within the next year and to break into the German sameday delivery market by the end of 1990. Managing director Mark Smith......

Going For Groceries

• Applied Distribution has won its first contract in food manufacturing with European giant Nestle. The four-year deal is the first outside its traditional third-party contract......

Teaming Up In Europe

• A major UK leasing company is at the forefront of a push to expand the range of services offered by European leasing firms through a new pan-European consortium, Interlea sing......

Buyers' Harvest

• Buyers for the Harvest Group of Companies are about to be announced, with the strong likelihood that the packaging and trucking arms will fall into separate hands. Harvet went......

Midland Contacts

• Two Birmingham transport companies running complementary services have joined forces to create a -Midlands transport and handling business with a turnover in excess of .22m.......