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By Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 7/1/2006

Accu-Time Systems hired John Kinnear as vice president of international business development…Avnet Inc. promoted Jim Smith to president of Avnet Logistics…Stewart Resnick joined the sales team at Diamond Phoenix as regional sales manager…FKI Logistex promoted Martin Clark to oversee marketing for manufacturing systems in North America. . . Fortna Inc. hired Phil Quartel as director of distribution consulting…Identec Solutions appointed Peter Linke executive vice president of worldwide sales…Donald Varshine joined Integrated Global Logistics as executive vice president of business development…Jervis B. Webb Co. named Gloria Lara vice president of project management and Lon McAllister vice president of manufacturing…KEOGH Consulting named Ravindra Madala president and CEO…KVP hired Bob Casazza as vice president of sales and marketing…Remstar promoted Ed Romaine to marketing vice president…Ken Miesemer joined St. Onge Co. as a senior consultant focusing on supply chain operational improvement projects…Westfalia Technologies named Richard Harrell chief financial officer.

Alien Technology and Vue Technology formed an alliance to deliver item-level RFID solutions across multiple industries…BlueBean acquired the online store RFIDSupplyChain.com…Crown Equipment Corp. received an Environmental Protection Agency award for its efforts to minimize waste; the company also received an award from the International Society for Performance Improvement for its new DP QuickStart training program for lift truck technicians…Lawson Software and Intentia International began operating as one company under the Lawson name…ODIN Technologies won a $14.6 million contract to install RFID equipment at Department of Defense DCs…Psion Teklogix announced a reseller agreement with Ryzex...RedPrairie announced an agreement with Microsoft to offer its warehouse and transportation management solutions with Microsoft Dynamics GP…Voxware announced reseller agreements with InfoLogix and software supplier RedPrairie.