{"id":1453,"date":"2018-08-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/australian-software-firm-launches-uk-headquarters-stockport\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:38:17","slug":"australian-software-firm-launches-uk-headquarters-stockport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/australian-software-firm-launches-uk-headquarters-stockport\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian software firm launches UK headquarters in Stockport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0_unnamed-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"0_unnamed\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Australian software firm has set up its UK headquarters in Stockport.\u00a0Sydney-based shipping software provider SmartFreight\u00a0is part of the IFS Group and has offices in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>It provides innovative software solutions to 3,000 companies around the world, helping cut their distribution costs and enhancing their supply chain operations.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 20 years it has provided transport management software to some of the world&#8217;s leading organisations and currently processes more than \u00a3325m each year of freight spend across its 16,000 software users.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Francis, national partnership manager at SmartFreight, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a very exciting time for us. 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