Objets d’Amour is an online boutique supplying thoughtful, unusual gifts, wherever possible hand made and/or designed in the UK. Where products are manufactured overseas, they are either hand made, or they were designed in the UK. Examples include hand blown friendship baubles from Poland and innovative cotton ‘Bowlovers’, which are designed in the UK and made in the Far East. Visit our website at www.objetsdamour.co.uk

LCP provides advice through consultants with lots of experience of transport and how supply chains work. Our job is to help our customers bring about improvements in their supply chains. We can create new teams and develop existing teams through knowledge transfer and training.

Over the past 20 years we’ve successfully helped over 300 organisations around the world improve their global supply chains.

Within the past twelve months we have been working in four continents around the globe, and over a dozen capital cities. Surviving the economic downturn has clearly become a hot-topic this year.

John Lewis began trading in 1864 with the opening of its flagship store on London’s Oxford Street.

It is the UK’s largest example of worker co-ownership where all of its staff are Partners in the business. John Lewis currently operates 39 shops across the UK (30 department stores and nine John Lewis at home), alongside a growing online business johnlewis.com

EDGE Creative Solutions Limited is a friendly, independent design and marketing agency based in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. Our aim is to provide creative ideas and imaginative solutions that will enhance businesses across the UK. We do lots at EDGE!

We design and produce thoughtful bespoke solutions for one-off marketing projects or complex communication strategies for our clients who range across variety of business fields.

We employ around 50,000 people who manage the movement and storage of different products all around the world. We transport products by air, sea and road, ensuring that our customers receive the right goods in the right place at the right time, safely and securely.

We handle a wide range of products including car parts, tyres, electrical products, food, newspapers, and even aircraft parts and medical equipment. There are different factors to consider for every product type that we handle and so our teams use their knowledge and experience to provide tailored services to meet the needs of our customers.

BITA is the UK’s leading trade association for forklift truck manufacturers and suppliers, companies supplying associated components and services, and the materials handling media.

BITA plays a pivotal role in the industry, partnering with key international organisations to help set and maintain the highest technical standards, while also working continually to improve forklift operational safety.

Owing to the shortage of new recruits coming into the materials handling industry, particularly in the crucial area of industrial truck maintenance, BITA is encouraging all its members to raise awareness of the wide range of career opportunities available to school and college leavers.

For 20 years Bisham Consulting has been helping businesses to improve their supply chains.

We assist businesses to plan the strategic re-design of their supply chains, and with our operational experience: forecast and set inventory, design their warehouses better, improve productivity, help outsource their operations and plan their local, national and international multimodal road, rail, sea and air transport. With collaboration help reduce their carbon footprint. With other clients we work on skills provision in Supply Chains and Logistics.

If your business is involved in the management, procurement and movement of goods and services Bisham Consulting have Solutions that Work.

Love the super-classy Range Rover and über-cool Mini? These iconic cars are built on automated production lines by robots that are programmed by Autotech. Order stuff online from your favourite store?

Your parcel may be transported at some point – in the warehouse or the distribution network – by equipment controlled by Autotech. Fancy a holiday? When you check in at the airport, it’s often technology from Autotech that ensures your case makes its way to the right plane at the right time. We’re Autotech and we’re in control.

Allport Cargo Services pack and transport cargo all over the world, by air, sea, road and rail. Our global network has more than 21,000 people in 450 offices in 130 countries. In the UK we operate out of 20 hi-tech facilities, importing and exporting cargo via all the major international trade routes.

For example, we designed specialised freighting solutions to support the international launch of the Range Rover Evoque, and helped the supermarket Morrisons manage the import of their new Nutmeg clothes from Asia and beyond, ensuring that they arrive in store at the right time and in the right quantities.

To find out more please visit: www.allportcargoservices.com/retailnews/

Unipart Logistics is one of Europe’s leading independent logistics companies. We build supply chains that maximise efficiency and minimise waste. What makes us different is the way we work, what we call the ‘Unipart way’, unlocking the ideas of people at all levels to tackle problems and deliver innovative solutions.

We get involved in sourcing materials, buying, warehousing, ordering systems, engineering support, reverse logistics and managing supply chains from start to finish. We attract customers from a diverse range of business sectors ~ from retail, consumer products, technology, automotive, aerospace and defence, doing it ‘the Unipart way’.

To find out more please visit: www.unipart.com