Thomas Nelson has announced the launch of Devotionals Daily, an interactive devotionals app, assimilating inspirational thoughts and insights from well-known Christian authors into daily updates. Initial offerings include best-selling devotionals from authors such as Sarah Young, Max Lucado, Sheila Walsh, Beth Moore and Billy Graham.

“We are thrilled with the success of the current Jesus Calling app and look forward to the latest version found inside the Devotionals Daily app,” said Jake Press, CEO of Hello Mogo, the apps’ developer. “We continue to receive an inpouring of emails from fans that have downloaded the current version, sharing how it has positively affected their lives. This reminds us, as a company, of our purpose and the mission ahead.”

New Day Christian Distributors recently began working with Gifts With a Cause, a San Diego-based company that works with artisans in more than 20 countries.

A member of the Fair Trade Federation, Gifts With a Cause was founded by Liz Allen and Mark Fangue in 2006. The company helps families in developing countries gain economic independence and receive social justice while providing retailers and nonprofits with a line of handcrafted products, including jewelry, handbags and scarves.

Hachette Book Group (HBG) has announced that it will expand its primary North American distribution center in Lebanon, Ind. When completed, the expanded facility will be approximately 1.5 million square feet, in two buildings.

Construction is scheduled to begin in March and will increase the facility by an additional 218,000 square feet. It is also expected to add 10 new full-time jobs.

Christian retailers convened Wednesday, Jan. 8, for the first CPE at AmericasMart held in conjunction with the Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market. The one-day event hosted by Munce Group, the Florida-based retail marketing group, helped to make navigating the gift show easier for Christian retailers and brought in non-gift vendors for the purpose of making time away from the store more productive.

Kirk Blank, president of Munce Group, said that vendor spaces were sold out with 28 of them setting up shop. Among the gift and distribution companies exhibiting at the one-day CPE were Anchor Distributors, Art & Soul Works/Gifts That Give Back, Barbour Publishing, Bob Siemon Designs, Christian Art Gifts, DaySpring, Kerusso, New Day Christian Distributors, Send the Light Distribution and Swanson Christian Products.

Providence, R.I.-based Cathedral Art Metal Co. has changed its name to CA Gift. The change is reflected in the company’s 2014 catalogs and at winter markets now underway.

Leo Tracey—president of the family-operated business—notes that the new name reflects changes in the marketplace that demand more unique and innovative product. He stresses that CA Gift will continue to offer the inspirational product that made the company a leader in its field for more than eight decades, in addition to introducing new categories that celebrate life’s occasions.

Thom Rainer’s I Am A Church Member (B&H Books) and Jim Belcher’s In Search of Deep Faith (IVP Books) won top honors in the 2013 Leadership Journal Book Awards. The awards are offered to the best leadership and ministry books of the year as chosen by the Leadership Journal staff.

In Search of Deep Faith received the top prize of “Best of the Best” for The Leader’s Inner Life category. Runner-up titles include One Way Love by Tullian Tchividjian (David C Cook), Why Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore by Thom and Joani Schultz (Group Publishing), Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung (Crossway) and Gospel by J.D. Greear (B&H Books).

The Gospel Light board of directors has appointed Stan Jantz as interim CEO, effective Jan. 13.

Jantz is a Christian book industry veteran whose 40-year professional career includes several phases: owning and operating one of the nation’s leading Christian retail stores; co-writing more than 50 Christian nonfiction books with sales of more than 3.5 million copies worldwide; and founding the digital publishing and content platform ConversantLife.com. Since 2011, Jantz has served as the publishing director for Regal Books, a division of Gospel Light.