Retail - Case studies - Case Studies - United Kingdom

Large scale recruitment and TUPE transfer for a new build start up operation

Our customer - a leading UK grocery retailer - took the decision to close a number of RDCs within their network and invest more than £70m in a number of new composite RDCs. Following a competitive tender, Norbert Dentressangle was selected as transport provider at one of the RDCs, and following a successful implementation our transport solutions were extended to another large RDC.

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Long term partnership with leading online & home shopping retailer

Our customer is the UK’s leading online and home shopping retailer,who has a 25% share of the home shopping market, annual sales of £1.7 billion and a customer base of more than 5 million. Starting in 2000 as an 86,000 sq ft shared user warehouse, today our solution comprises a dedicated 800,000 sq ft and 60 acre campus warehouse operation.

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Composite retail distribution operation with over 1,100 colleagues

Our customer has over 480 stores and operates a nationwide distribution network comprising eight main RDCs, of which six are multi-temperature composite sites. We have managed and operated a 645,000 sq ft campus distribution centre since 1989.

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Retail distribution operation for home & general merchandise market leader

Our customer is a multi-channel retailer selling products to 130 million customers in the UK and Ireland, through its website which receives 430 million visits each year generating 26% of sales and a TV shopping channel. Sales in 2011 were £4.3 billion.

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Delivering exceptional service levels to leading supermarket chain

With an ethos of delivering excellence on a daily basis and a passion for being the best at what we do, the frozen food distribution centre in Stone assembles over 22.4 million cases, servicing more than 400 stores and covering 6.3 million kilometres each year for our customer, a leading supermarket chain.

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Flexible labour planning in a million sq ft retail operation

Norbert Dentressangle manages four RDCs for our customer, a leading high street retailer, storing circa 5.8 million units, with weekly throughput of 1.8 million items - 3.6 million at peak. The sites employ a combined total of 1,500 colleagues rising to 2,500 at peak, when activity levels can increase 100% week on week.

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ASDA - National Return Centre Operations

ASDA currently has more than 380 stores nationwide and a turnover exceeding £18.5 billion. The company’s mission is to be the UK’s best value retailer and its high profile is allied with its strong customer relationships and determination to exceed customer needs on a daily basis.

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Zara – out of hours store deliveries

Making sure that quality designs and innovative fashions are always available to its customers means ensuring the Inditex supply chain is fast, flexible and responsive. That’s why Inditex works with the Norbert Dentressangle Group for over 2,000 stores in Spain, France and Great Britain. In Britain, the overnight transport operation serves over 70 Inditex stores including Zara, Zara Home, Massimo Dutti, Bershka.

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Ikea - Ikea's not so little helpers!

Each year in Europe, Christmas begins in October... and ends at the end of January. For four months, the Norbert Dentressangle Group makes all its human and material resources available for its customers.

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Salomon - Salomon gets off on the right foot

Adidas group subsidiary Salomon, based in Annecy, France, specialises in winter sports gear. It decided to delocalise part of its production (Alpine and Nordic ski boots, in-line skates, ski bindings and Mavic bike wheels) to Romania.

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