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The UK arm of Beiersdorf, the producer of brands like Nivea and Elastoplast, has gone live with a major wireless RF solution at its UK distribution centre.

Thales UK has been awarded a £880,000 contract by Fowler Welch Coolchain to equip its fleet of 750 refrigerated trailers with a satellite tracking and temperature monitoring system. The system is due to be fully operational in January 2006.

Symbol Technologies and Zebra Technologies have been selected by Marks & Spencer as its mobility partners for mobile shelf edge labelling across 400 Marks & Spencer food outlets in the United Kingdom.

A four-month retail study has concluded that investment in RFID can bring significant and rapid payback to manufacturers and retailers.

The equipment required includes: BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry handhelds, the Content Beamer for BlackBerry server based bluetooth print solution, and a bluetooth capable printer.

Platinum Equity has completed the acquisition of Peak Technologies, an international provider of automated identification and data collection systems and enterprise mobility solutions, from R.R Donnelley & Sons Co.

Western Europe is still cool on the deployment of RFID but the technology is gathering pace in many vertical industries, analysts have found.