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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.

German retailer REWE has started an extensive pallet-level RFID pilot at its Norderstedt distribution centre in Germany.

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.