RedPrairie Corporation, a global leader in supply chain technology solutions has announced today that it has acquired UK-based RangeGate Mobile Solutions to expand the company’s product offerings.

Shares in PD Ports have risen more than 13% after it announced that it had received a preliminary bid approach which appears to be from an Australian bank.

MPs and Peers at the House of Commons have shown their support for the proposed deep water port at Bathside Bay and Felixstowe South.

Lorries are being banned from overtaking on a three mile stretch of the M42, in an effort to reduce congestion. The ban came into force on October 10 2005 and is being trialled for 18 months, between 7am and 7pm daily.

ASDA is to create 300 jobs following the announced development for a new £20M import centre with PD Teesport (part of PD Ports plc).

Matthews & Goodman, the North-West-based property adviser, has been instructed by Pirelli to advise on the sale of a site on Wrexham Industrial Estate

AirBridge Cargo (ABC) has commenced operations with its third Boeing 747 freighter. Its maiden flight with the company will see it in service from Beijing to Amsterdam via the airline’s Russian hub in Krasnoyarsk.

Allsports has confirmed more than 1,300 job losses and the closure of 92 stores.

Northern Foods, Britain’s biggest supplier of ready meals, has announced that it expects the impact of rising energy costs to be passed on to consumers.

Tony Hall, is the new sales director for Still UK. Formerly sales director for Rack-N-Stak, Still’s North-west distributor, Hall became Northern regional sales director for Still when it bought the Rack-N-Stak company in 2004.