Cool Box For York

• York Group has bought the rest of Thermostar, which manufactures temperaturecontrolled bodywork, from Le Capitaine of France. Thermostar will now be able to start large volume......

• Sheffield-based Taperlite Spring Manufacturer Tinsley...

subject of a management buyout from the British Steel Corporation. This was financed by 31 (Investors in Industry) from a 230 million East Midlands Management Buyout fund......

• Irish Ferry Company B&i Line Is To Close Its

main ferry service between Liverpool and Dublin, sack half its workforce and will ask the remainder to take a 10% pay cut in an attempt to reduce the company's £30 million......

Nfc Moves Into Far East Market

• NFC International, part of the employee-owned National Freight Consortium, has made a move into the Far East removal market in a joint venture with Shibusawa, Japan's fourth......

• Whale Tankers Claims To Have Achieved Its First Year's

sales target for its Whale Blazer gritters in only four months. In August alone the company won 2180,000 worth of orders for the vehicle.......

• Foods Firm Golden Wonder Has Spent £400,000 On 12

Mercedes six-tonne vans and five 28-tonne Volvo tractors and trailers which will operate with its distribution fleet.......

• Brs Western Is Supplying Five Leyland Roadrunner 1013s And

two Freighter 1314s to Dunlop tyre-manufacturer SP Tyres, in a five-year contract hire deal worth £850,000.......

• Crane Fruehauf Has Delivered The First Of The 500

trailers ordered by Central Trailer Rental as part of a 250 million investment in new vehicles. This year CTR has ordered 3,000 new trailers. 4 4 • East Midlands wholesale baker......