Gist supply chains are award-winning. Our dedication to excellence, customer partnership, innovation and people mean we deliver our customers with outstanding results. As a result, our operations have been recognised by the industry with awards for people development, operational excellence and IT innovation.

Our awards:

• 2011 Development of People - CILT Annual Awards for Excellence

  Gist was also named winner of Development of People category, giving recognition to its industry-leading people programmes that includes delivering NVQs, driver CPCs, an outstanding management trainee programme. and the use of people panels to support robust development and succession planning.

• 2011 Young Manager of the Year, Rachel Beeken - CILT Annual Awards for Excellence

  Rachel Beeken has been named CILT's Young Manager of the Year by demonstrating the ambition, professional drive and outstanding people skills that has delivered excellence in personal, employee, team, business and customer satisfaction. Rachel has been instrumental in customer account growth, has introduced a range of improved employee programmes, revised work processes and created structured training programmes for her teams that showed a demonstrable improvement in performance.

• 2011 Supply Chain Technology - Retail Week Supply Chain Awards 

  Gist has won the Supply Chain Technology at the Retail Week Supply Chain Awards 2011 recognising the development of GistDXS, a world-first in dynamic multi-nodal transport planning that is used for optimising transport for a number of food retailers.

• 2011 Technology & Logistics Provider of the Year - The Grocer Gold Awards

  Gist Limited was named Technology and Logistics Supplier of the Year at The Grocer Gold Awards 2011. Gist's transformation of food retailer EAT's supply chain was achieved by consolidating the previously separately managed ambient, chilled and frozen supply chains into a single operation. As a result, transport routes were optimised and reduced, as were fuel consumption and mileage, safety for drivers and store employees was improved and store complaints were dramatically reduced.

• 2010 IGD John Sainsbury Award for Learning and Development

• 2010 Large Employer Award (Yorkshire & Humber) - learndirect

• 2010 Industry Trainer of the Year, Charlotte Russell - everywoman in Logistics and Transport Awards

• 2009 Staff Development Award - British International Freight Association

• 2009 Consumer & Retail Award - Carlsberg UK in partnership with Gist - European Supply Chain Excellence

• 2009 Training Award - Motor Transport

• 2009 Safety Award - Motor Transport

• 2009 National Large Employer Award - learndirect

• 2009 Large Employer Award (North West, South East and East regions) - learndirect

• 2005 Award for Supply Chain Excellence - Gist & Marks & Spencer (RFID technology) - IGD

• 2005 CAST User of the Year Award - John Cowburn, Consulting Services Manager

• 2005 British Safety Award, Crewe depot

• 2004 Retail Technology Solution Award - Gist & Marks & Spencer (RFID Technology) - Retail Week

• 2004 Environmental Improvement & Safety Award - Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (UK)

• 2004 Supply Chain Innovation Award - Gist & Marks & Spencer (RFID Technology) - Logistics Europe

• 2004 British Safety Council Award, Crewe depot

• 2003 Women in Transport - Road Haulage Association

• 2003 Environmental Award - Motor Transport