• Talent services specialist Ford & Stanley Group has been awarded the exclusive recruitment partnership for Gemini Rail Services, a rolling stock maintenance and overhaul business. The recruitment provision and partnership will utilise all three recruitment businesses within the Ford & Stanley Group – Ford & Stanley TalentWise, Ford & Stanley Recruitment and Ford & Stanley Executive Search. The two-year deal will see Ford & Stanley provide white-collar and executive search talent solutions.

• XPO, a provider of innovative and sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, has been named a new logistics partner for cereal brand Weetabix. XPO will run the Weetabix multi-warehousing operation at the company’s primary site at Burton Latimer near Kettering, as well as Corby in Northamptonshire.

Around 200 of the current Weetabix workforce at the site will become part of the XPO team. XPO will also develop and adopt new in-house systems to help Weetabix improve its current operations with synergised operations. XPO will also manage Weetabix's global forwarding requirements through cross-border services, customs clearance and aligned transport projects.