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Truck Auction World is an online commercial vehicle auction company which holds live auctions for buying and selling all types of commercial vehicles worldwide. TruckAuctionWorld is a Auctionv2 deployment, adding to growing number of commercial, automotive, auction sites which recognise red2 as the leader in auction technology.

Red2 is happy to announce the introduction of Pontus Lindgren, who joins Red2 as Director of Operations. Red2's expansion has highlighted the need to recruit experienced managers to drive the growing demands of our software development business. Pontus joins us from Direct Link Worldwide Ltd, a global business which is part of Sweden post.

Red2 are happy to announce that the On Demand, fully hosted, auction system is now live and taking orders online. The OnDemand service compliments the customized auction system already available, giving smaller, niche customers the ability to use the powerful Auction V2 (version 2) auction engine. 

Red2 is happy to have been selected as the provider of auction technology for AMG. The auction system is being used with a points based model, replacing currency. Bidders are able to bid using allocated points for specific items. This is a closed B2B auction environment, and is amongst the first of our customers to fully utilize the new Auction v2 technology.

Red2 has been selected by Lloyds Of London to provide development services. Lloyds is well recognized and highly trust business, choosing to work with Red2 is a testament to our professional approach to development.

Red2 is happy to announce that a new website, specifically for our Auction product is now available. You can visit the new site by going here; www.auctionv2.com. Red2 Auction is the world leader in customised auction deployments, with the release of v2 we have broadened the reach of the application.

Red2 has been recognised as an inspirational company (joining MySpace, Facebook, Tate Britain and more) by a branch of the Sector Skills Council for IT. You can see our videos and meet some of the team here; Big Ambition.

Environmentally aware car hire, integrating all the major car hire companies (Alamo, Budget, Dollar, National, and more) to provide a competitive and unique site. Treecar.co.uk allows customers to search for, and book, car hire throughout the world using this friendly, focused, website. Treecar is a red2 offering based on our Dynamic Feed Engine, a dynamic packaging system for flights, hotels, car hire, excursion and more.

Red2 is happy to announce that it is now working with CWS Marketing, the US based customs seizer auction house. CWS have a broad range of auction types, from product to real estate and is ideally suited to the Red2 Auction application. Red2 continues to expand its customer based in the US and is becoming the number one choice for auction systems worldwide.

Red2’s auction system continues to be utilized in new and innovative ways. The University of Illinois approached Red2 to provide a means of streamlining the process of resource allocation and sharing. The development enables departments to work together and collaborate in finding the optimum use of available skills. The system is suitable for all enterprise level businesses and is both cost effective and low friction.

Red2’s recent auction deployment for the antique watch auctioneer Patrizzi Auctioneers went live with their recent auction in Milan. 98% of the 113 lots sold for a hammer price of 2.7 million. Red2 Auction is used to manage the floor, written, telephone and real time online bidding. Large screen displays through the auction venue enabled observers and bidders to keep informed throughout the auction.

Red2 is now working with JLTOnline, the online arm of JLT insurance (FTSE 250). We’re very happy to be able to add JLT to our list of clients, expanding our range of services to the insurance vertical. Red2 already works with Rock insurance an insurance intermediary, working with JLT strengths our knowledge and application of that knowledge in the insurance market place.

Comtec, the European travel software provider has selected red2 to work with them on the implementation of a number of Travelink integrations. Red2 has in-depth knowledge of Travelink and Comtec products and is an ideal partner to work on web based enhancements to complement their reservation technology.

Red2 is happy to announce that the Riviera Travel site is now live. Riviera travel uses the Babel reservation system and is integrated on the front-end by red2. The red2 development enhances the reservation system and provides an enriched online experience in a similar way to Travelink integrations. Reservation systems provide the back-office inventory and ticketing, with the red2 development providing the web-friendly booking journey and enhanced content.

Red2 announce a new car hire website - the first standalone project by red2. The site demonstrates the use of red2's dynamic packaging system (the Dynamic Feed Engine) for car hire support as well as showcasing design and marketing by the newly created red2agency. Launch of the site is due shortly.

Red2 expands the reach of its travel development expertise with the introduction of Rock Insurance as a client. Formed in 2001, Rock Insurance is a multi-million-pound travel insurance intermediary and is continuing to grow fast. Rock provides travel insurance via a customer-facing website, b2b sites and web service models. Red2 are working with Rock to deliver the end-to-end solution, including the back office and full spread of web-based transaction sites.

 Red2 is happy to add some new faces to work in our new design department. We have traditionally outsourced our creative, but have made the decision to bring talent in-house. This allows for a more rounded offering and is part of our longer term strategy which will see the introduction of a new business unit red2Agency.

Carien Otto, who joins red2 as our new Senior Designer, has worked previously for a wide range of e-commerce and online projects. Carien brings 9 years of design expertise as well as user experience and branding knowledge. Carien joins us from livedrive.com, and previous to that Blue Square.

Robin Allport, who joins red2 as our Senior Front-end Web Developer, has worked previously in the financial sector at NatWest Global Financial Markets, Royal Bank of Scotland and Credit Suisse First Boston. After that he worked in the media sector at Image.net, leading the front-end development of a complex digital asset management system, this was bought out by Getty Images, where he worked for another 3 years.

Red2 delivers a wide range of services for the automotive industry; these include auctions, as well as e-commerce and back office integrations’ into MAM. We have a unique understanding of the complex data and processes for the automotive aftermarket and are ideally placed to help expand or enhance your online presence. Brown and Gammons, popular MG aftermarket supplier, have selected red2 to integrate with MAM and deliver an end-to-end online process.

Red2 announced a new online lead management tool today. Tracklead.co.uk is a simple sales lead management system which is free to use. This is an extension of our original red2contact open source product.

We’re happy to welcome Dun and Bradstreet to our list of clients. Red2 is utilising our proprietary site service technology in an exciting and highly evolved technical implementation.

We have been working with The Guardian to develop a reader offers site, guardianholidayoffers.co.uk, which soft-launched last week. This site uses our Dynamic Feed Engine to take information from many holiday suppliers and allows it to be searched and booked using a single site (dynamic packaging). The site uses XML and web services to normalise data and provide a transparent, engaging experience for the user.

Red2 today announce an extension to our Red2 Auction system to support ticket-based auctions. Ticket auctions differ from normal auctions since lots “cascade” with the highest bidder in the most prominent seats, second highest in the next set of seats and so on. This results in multiple winners of a single lot. Our first deployment is for the US venue Idaho Center. Red2 continues to expand its auction platform providing an extensible industry standard .NET solution for a wide variety of different vertical markets.

Red2 is happy to announce that the eBay snipe site lastsnipe.com is now live. This exciting website uses Red2 Site Service technology to screen-scrape eBay in real-time, making bids on behalf of users. Red2 Site Service can be used as either an offline site-scraping technology (to collect data) or, as in this case, to drive real-time web interactions.

Red2 starts work on a new project for Europe’s largest hosted exchange provider, Cobweb Solutions. This is the second project for Cobweb in recent months and is for internal use within their expanding organisation. Red2 provides complex business process management integrated with existing accounting, CRM and workflow solutions for a growing number of clients.

Red2 announces plans for a new hosting platform in the New Year. We have seen a big increase in the number of companies who prefer our managed service approach. By providing a 360-degree service we are able to scale solutions on behalf of our customers and reduce costs by maintaining shared infrastructure. The new data centre will give us immediate additional capacity and provide for further planned growth in 2008.

Red2 starts work on a new version of the community site to support the popular music product eJay.com. This exciting project encourages user-generated content, providing a rich, immersive environment for musicians. eJay is built on top of our Red-E content, community and collaboration platform.

Travel Editions uses Red2 technology to augment data stored in their Travelink back office system, as well as drive the online experience. Back office travel booking systems are not designed to deal with online interactions or to manage site, tour and hotel content at a site level (for example photographs, customer friendly descriptions, offer management and so on). Red2’s travel experience and suite of readymade site building blocks are combined to provide engaging, successful, online travel offerings.