Appointments/promotions: John King is appointed vice president of sales and marketing at SK Daifuku... Steve Hankey is named product manager for small belt drive products of Interroll Corp.... The Council of Logistics Management elects the following officers for 2003-2004: Elijah Ray, senior vice president of customer solutions, Standard Corp., as president; Thomas Speh, associate dean for academic affairs at Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration, Miami University in Ohio, as past president; Mark Richards, vice president, Associated Warehouses Inc., as first vice president; Mary-Lou Quinto, supply chain consultant, as second vice president; and Rick Blasgen, senior vice president of integrated logistics, ConAgra Foods Inc., as secretary and treasurer... George Reyher joins FKI Logistex Alvey Systems as an account manager for Latin America... G-Log appoints Greg Slawson to managing director of the newly formed automotive solutions division... Salvatore Aliotta Jr. is named president of Trio Pines U.S.A.... Shuttleworth Inc. promotes Bill Toth to customer service manager and Jeffery Follis to field service manager... Joseph Cascio is named vice president of sales for Borroughs Corp.... Fischbein Co. appoints Michael Siddons to president and general manager... Caster Concepts Inc. welcomes Eric Earl as director of sales and marketing development and Brian Russell as district sales manager... Louis Hollmeyer joins Forte Industries as director of marketing.

Alliances/construction: RedPrairie forms a strategic partnership with Vocollect enabling RedPrairie to resell Vocollect's Talkman solution with its warehouse and productivity management solutions... RedPrairie also signs an agreement with Sonata Software Ltd. to support the DigitaLogistix supply chain execution suite in India and parts of Asia... Printronix Inc. and Alien Technology Corp. partner to develop radio frequency identification solutions... Marubeni Corp. becomes the distributor for Matrics Inc. in Japan... ID Technology opens an Ohio Valley regional office in Carmel, Indiana... WS Packaging Group acquires Concept Inc.... Fernqvist Labeling Solutions opens a Midwest sales office and distribution center in Elgin, Illinois.