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Marks & Spencer has renewed its contract with Norbert Dentressangle for a further five years.

The renewal also sees the scope of the partnership increased to include the delivery of a major automation project at the retailer’s Bradford DC, along with the management of the existing ambient food operation at the site.

Norbert Dentressangle already manages four Marks & Spencer general merchandise RDCs in Neasden, Thorncliffe (Sheffield), Stoke and Warrington and, under the new agreement, also takes responsibility for the 1.1 million ft² Bradford warehouse.

The logistics group took over the management of the ambient food operation at Bradford, which opened in 2012, in August this year.

Over the next two years, the company will also project manage the design and installation of an automated system for the storage and handling of boxed general merchandise product for distribution to Marks & Spencer stores nationwide. It will also be responsible for running the facility when it becomes operational in 2016.

The companies have worked together for twenty five years.

In may Marks & Spencer revealed it had dropped plans to open a DC at the London Gateway.

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