Nfc Buys Alpine

• Less than a week after it finally acquired Birds Eye Walls' distribution business (CM, Oct. 18), the National Freight Consortium has now bought Alpine Refrigerated Deliveries......

Trucklease Invests £50k

Bristol Street Motors Group's Birmingham-based commercial vehicle contract hire and leasing division — Trucklease — is spending 220,000 on computer equipment and moving to new......

Bodybuilders Boost Sales By 56%

• Sales by British motor body builders have increased by 56.7% in the past three years to 2550 million, according to TCC's Business Ratio Report on Motor Body Builders and......

Scania Grows With European Demand

• Swedish truck and bus builder Scania increased its worldwide sales by 12% during the first eight months of the year to SKr7.26 billion (2738 million), although its UK sales......

Bowker Carries For Basf

• Blackburn-based WH Bowker has won a new contract to supply transport services for BASF (UK), the British subsidiary of the German chemicals comPany. Bowker will use four Volvo......