The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2010 will be open for entries very soon. The Awards are the gold standard for supply chain operations in Europe attracting entries from the world’s leading manufacturers, retailers and supply chain specialists.

Deutsche Post DHL produced earnings before interest and tax of 231 million euros in 2009 – a 124 per cent EBIT improvement on the 966m euro loss in 2008.

Louis Vuitton Japan has signed a contract with Kuehne + Nagel Japan for the management of its regional distribution centre.

Cathay Pacific Airways is implementing JDA Cargo Revenue Optimiser to help improve profitability of its cargo operation.

TDG has acquired Hungarian transport business RRS Logistics in a move that enables the group to extend its full range of services in Central and Eastern Europe.

Kuehne + Nagel has posted a 13.2 per cent drop in EBITDA to £545.8 million (CHF 885 million) for the year ended 31st December 2009 compared to the previous year.

Walmart has set itself the goal of cutting 20 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from its global supply chain by the end of 2015 - one and a half times the company's estimated global carbon footprint growth over the next five years.

DHL is set to invest HK$360 million (£27 million) to expand its operations into a single, multi-user facility for DHL Supply Chain to accommodate growth in Hong Kong.

Ceva beat its cost saving target by more than 25 per cent during 2009, removing £113m (125m euros) of cost from the business.

Mothercare has deployed Kewill’s web-based order management system, Kewill Trade, enabling it to develop a flexible, scalable supply chain trading platform to support expansion of its international operations.

The Kühne School of Logistics and Management is founding a private independent university: The Kühne Logistics University (KLU), which will become part of the Hamburg cluster for logistics research institutes.

Fujifilm, the Japanese manufacturer of cameras and photographic processing, has outsourced its contract logistics to Kuehne + Nagel in Poland in order to consolidate the inventories of its three warehouses in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

German retailer myToys.de’s plans to open new distribution centre at Langenselbold in June which will use an automated sortation systems to give a throughput of 11,000 items an hour.

Retailer Delhaize Belgium is to implement an integrated supply chain ERP platform designed to enable it to standardise its supply chain transactions, increasing efficiency and productivity.

Dachser is set to take over the management of the marketing of its worldwide airfreight services as part of its expansion strategy and terminate its co-operation with the Future Group.

NASA will conduct its first-ever water sustainability forum next week at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is singling out 10 firms from around the world to showcase innovative solutions to water management.

As consumers, we define ourselves by the brands we keep. We believe in them, yet they seldom give us new reasons to do so. But that's changing now as we find ourselves in the early stages of a new industrial revolution.

Latin American wine producer and exporter Concha Y Toro has signed a three year contract with Kuehne + Nagel expanding its long-term partnership.

The technology giant has implemented three best practices as part of a sustainability pilot project that are netting huge savings in materials and transportation costs as well as waste management.

This slideshow from Cisco Systems outlines some of the steps the company has taken to save $24 million per year as part of its sustainable packaging pilot.