UKWA – the United Kingdom Warehousing Association - has announced the finalists for each category in this year’s UKWA Awards for Warehousing. The overall winner of each category will be announced at the UKWA’s Awards for Warehousing Ceremony which takes place at London’s Dorchester Hotel on Wednesday July 3rd.

The finalists are:

Customer Service
• Torque & TM Lewin
• Simarco Worldwide Logistics

• Bibby Distribution & Kellogg UK

Best New UKWA Member

• Lanchester Wine Cellars Ltd
• Law Distribution Ltd
• Gem Logistics

Technical Innovation
• Returnloads.Net
• Bibby Distribution

• Wiley with TGW Ltd

Training

• Wincanton plc

• Knights of Old

• Simarco Worldwide Logistics


Warehouse Manager of the Year

• Steven Vaughan, Expect Distribution Ltd

• Leigh Brown, Edwards Transport


Team of the Year

• Simarco Worldwide Logistics

• Century Logistics Ltd

• Boughey Distribution

Environment

• Elddis Transport (Consett) Ltd

• Mini Clipper Logistics

• Simarco Worldwide Logistics

Young Employee of the Year

• Sam Greenhalgh, Simarco Worldwide Logistics
• Nathan Jones, Linde Material Handling (UK)

Junior Manager of the Year
• Daniel King, Expect Distribution

• Martin Goodwin, Century Logistics Ltd

• Marie Rickets, Bibby Distribution

UKWA’s chief executive officer, Roger Williams, commented: “We are grateful to all those companies that entered this year’s Awards for Warehousing. The high number and quality of the entries we received underlines the professionalism that runs through the modern logistics industry.”

UKWA’s Awards are established as symbols of achievement in the 3PL sector and emphasise the importance of logistics within today’s economy.

The Awards Luncheon is widely regarded as one of the premier networking events in the logistics industry’s calendar. This year over 400 UKWA members and their guests are expected to attend.

The event commences at 12 noon with a Gala Reception in the Opal Suite of the Dorchester followed by a 3-course luncheon.

UKWA’s Awards for Warehousing 2013 are sponsored by Jungheinrich UK Ltd, Briggs Equipment UK Ltd, Toyota Material Handling UK, RediGroup, D P World & London Gateway, Knapp UK Ltd, Clarion Events, Lutterworth Ecolighting, Hoppecke Industrial Batteries Ltd and Advanced Business Solutions

Editors’ notes: About The United Kingdom Warehousing Association
With over 600 member companies, the United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA) is the UK’s only trade association dedicated to serving the vitally important warehousing and logistics sector. Established in 1944, the Association’s members control nearly 100 million square feet of warehousing space from nearly 1300 locations across the UK. Although originally established as a trade body for the third party warehousing sector, the Association now embraces all companies that operate a warehousing or distribution facility. Membership is not restricted to those companies based within the borders  of the United Kingdom.