Winners announced at Warehouse Transformation Awards
The Awards took place at the Tomorrow’s Warehouse Event in Coventry on May 14.
THIS IS the second year Logistics Matters has held these awards as part of Tomorrow’s Warehouse.
Logistics Matters editor Simon Duddy says: “The awards give us the opportunity to celebrate the people, teams and solution providers who have transformed warehousing operations for the better and excelled in terms of efficiency, safety, resilience, space optimisation and much else.”
Lifetime Achievement Award
Winner: Jonathan Betts, M&S Supply Chain & Logistics
Though he avoids the spotlight, Jonathan’s impact is foundational and far‑reaching. He was instrumental in establishing the Castle Donington Ecom Distribution Centre in 2011, which still sets performance benchmarks today. He now leads major upgrades there, while also shaping the design, build and extension of the Bradford Ecom DC. Colleagues say his depth of knowledge appears limitless, and working alongside him genuinely makes ‘every day a school day’.
Warehouse Team of the Year
Winner: DSV
The DSV Mercia Park warehouse team clearly demonstrated operational excellence with a proactive approach to solving complex logistics challenges.
[L-R] David Upton, Stock Manager, DSV; Lisa Lloyd-Smith, General Manager, DSV; Simon Duddy, Editor, Logistics Matters; Vanessa Wood, Operations Manager, DSV.
Warehouse Person of the Year
Winner: Andrew Fitzgerald, Warehouse & Logistics Manager, United UK
With excellent testimonials to back up his entry, Andy Fitzgerald is described as the operational backbone of United UK.
Warehouse Automation Solution of the Year
Winner: OPEX Cold Storage Solution for Automated Fulfillment Systems
Great lateral thinking from OPEX and partner Peltier, a potentially ground-breaking automated cold storage solution for e-grocery.
[L-R] Simon Duddy, Editor, Logistics Matters; Mike Morgan, Business Development, EMEA, OPEX; Mark Kirkpatrick, Director Service & Support EMEA/APAC, OPEX.
Highly Commended: arvato
arvato’s WCS combined with AutoStore is a powerful solution for retail customers.
Mark Trappett, Engineering Manager, arvato
Highly Commended: HAI Robotics HAIPick Climb
The powerful high-density tote storage and goods-to-person system continues to develop at pace.
Warehouse Software Solution of the Year
Winner: Kallikor
Helping grocer Morrisons make warehouse transformation decisions much faster makes Kallikor’s platform a worthy winner.
Will Lovatt, Chief Revenue Officer, Kallikor
AI Innovation of the Year
Winner: Consafe Logistics
Consafe has embedded AI throughout its WMS helping customers root out hard-to-find efficiency savings.
Sacha Williams, Country Manager UK, Consafe Logistics
Highly Commended: TrioMobil
The company’s AI innovation merges active prevention and continuous risk monitoring into an impressive warehouse safety system.
Gavin Tull, Sales Director UK and Ireland, Trio Mobil
Warehouse Integrator Partner of the Year
Winner: SEC Group
SEC has shown impressive growth deploying expertise across storage system design, robotics deployment, and warehouse execution software.
Megan Lee, Marketing Manager, SEC Group
The Resilience Award
Winner: ARK-H
Facing a connectivity crisis, the Ark-H team swung into action instigating its critical incident plan and seeing off the danger.
Iain Gudgeons, Production Manager Inventory Control & Logistics, Ark-H
Warehouse Sustainability Solution of the Year
Winner: Logisnext UK
Saica deployed Logisnext UK’s Rocla AGVs with FleetController software to meet sustainability goals and boost efficiency.
Graham Jones, Regional Director UK & Ireland, Logisnext UK
Safer Logistics Award
Winner: JJX Logistics
The company’s outstanding Safer Logistics initiative achieved measurable reductions in incidents and improved reporting.
Warehouse Transformation of the Year
Winner: THG Fulfil
THG’s ICON2 facility had limited sortation capacity but partnering with Libiao Robotics resolved this issue, upping throughput and reducing reliance on labour.
Warehouse Property of the Year
Winner: Harwin
Warehouse occupier Harwin grabbed the attention of the judges with a multi-storey industrial facility festooned with solar panels.
PRIZE DRAW
The Awards are in association with the Automated Material Handling Systems Association. We would like to thank AMHSA for their support of these Awards. AMHSA conducted a prize draw at the start of the awards, with an Amazon Kindle Scribe as the prize.
Winner: Lerzan Gan, Solution Designer, Geek+
Tomorrow’s Warehouse at Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester takes place on 30 September 2026. We will be opening free registration within the next month. Please do join us there.
