Exel Consumer Double

• Exel Logistics has clinched two deals this week with a combined value of almost 210 million. Safeway Foodstores has awarded EL's Temperature Controlled Services division a......

Brs Boldnes

• I ugh interest rates are encouraging companies to u: transport and distribution specialists, says FIRS Northern, which has just shown its confidence in the market with the......

Hillsdown Sells Off

• Hillsdown Holdings plans to sell Cartwright Brice Holdings, which includes a major stationery and office products contract distribution business. Kleinwort Benson, which is......

Masters Goes Dutch

• Barnsley transport and distribution company R J Masters has teamed up with Dutch operator Vitesse to set up a trans-European network. Masters, launched 15 years ago as a......

United Transport Forms European Trio

• l'nited Transport has formed a new company, United Transport Europe, with three divisions: United Transport Tankers, United Transport Company and United Transport Logistics.......

Placketts Builds

• A new Nottingham-based bodybuilder, East Midlands Bodybuilders, has been set up by Placketts Holdings. The company has been launched because "there is a big gap in the market......

Volkswagen Boost • Volkswagen Has Booste Its Profits By 30%

to 2133. million in the first half of 1989, and plans to continui that trend in the second half. Paper money • Robsons Distribution Services has extended its warehouse contract......