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Robert Hardy, former Director of P&O Ferries and EurotunnelPlus, has joined Oakland International to help create Oakland Invicta, a new company specialising in maintaining European supply chain integrity.

UK convenience symbol group operator SPAR UK and multi temperature supply chain specialist Oakland International have been confirmed as finalists in this year’s Hermes Retail Week Supply Chain Awards 2017 at the London Hilton, Park Lane on Thursday 28th September.

Singer/songwriter Sam Ostler from Redditch will be aiming to hit a high note when he performs at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham for the inaugural Oakland Foundation Charity Ball on Friday 8th September.

Oakland International is a finalist in The National Family Business Awards 2017 in the Big Heart Award category representing the Midlands, with winners announced at the Grand Awards Ceremony at Wembley on Saturday 15th July.

A group of friends who completed 2016’s Race The Sun Brecon Beacons challenge, raising over £5,000 for Action Medical Research, announced their return to Lycra and are committing to undertake a mega hat-trick in 2017 by completing a Race The Sun triple challenge.

Cancer Research UK was delighted to be presented with a cheque for £20,223 from Redditch businessman, Dean Attwell, who trekked to the North Pole in April to raise funds for the charity.

Budding horticulturalists at Beoley First School are delighted with their new and much larger greenhouse thanks to local businesses and parents who dug deep for the green fingered project.

Oakland International Finance Director, Jeremy Hoare, has been shortlisted for the Private Company FD of the Year – Smaller and Mid-Sized Business award category of the FDs’ Excellence Awards to be held in London on 17 May 2017.

Multi temperature supply chain specialist Oakland International and UK symbol group operator SPAR UK are confirmed as finalists in The Grocer Gold Awards 2017 to be held at the Guildhall, London on Tuesday 13th June 2017.