Services&Suppliers
Blanche, Meccano, Mumbo Jumbo Toys, K’Nex, and most recently Epoch Making Toys. 01489 799 500
www.importservices.co.uk
Century Logistics is an award-winning provider of cost effective and innovative warehousing and logistics solutions in the UK, with a proven track record of helping UK, European and global toy and nursery companies deliver every day to their retailers and consumers. Century helps its clients to save money and manage costs by providing tightly managed logistics operations with the ability to flex provision up or down according to demand. Century stores products on behalf of its clients in its warehouse, and delivers them to retailers or consumers, and buys in the expertise of truck fleets to give flexibility of choice to its customers. The company also delivers complete customer care programmes for its clients’ consumers providing product support, warranty and aftercare. It also generates additional revenues for its clients by selling end of line, returned stock and customer returns products via e-commerce websites. Through its two eBay stores, Baby Value and Nursery Savings, Century has generated in excess of £3m for its clients. For the sector, the most significant change is the continual growth in online sales with 2013 seeing the fastest increase for four years. This growth brings different challenges for logistics companies as the number of single item deliveries increases. By working closely with its clients, Century had forecasted most of this growth and set its operations to adapt in response. In 2014 Century has already opened a new facility in Cambridge, expanding its operation to seven sites, with plans to open a further two sites in the first half of the year. Century Logistics is offering toy and nursery companies a limited number of free logistics health checks, so that they can see if they could save money in comparison to their current provider or in-house arrangement, have a more flexible approach and if they are missing out on end of line stock revenues. 01284 413 100
www.centurylogistics.co.uk
Amethyst Group is one of the UK’s largest third party logistics providers to the toy industry. The company has been operating in this sector for over 20 years, and has been the partner of choice for clients who have won the Toy of the Year award six times in the last decade. Amethyst offers bespoke solutions and flexible resources to give its clients a stress- free logistics solution on a variable cost basis, delivering improved cash flow and the freedom to concentrate on core business. Amethyst’s award-winning services
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encompass more than storage and distribution; its solutions are focused on delivering successful peak operations as standard, and their long-term relationships with retail customers’ distribution centres ensure maximum delivery conformance. The company also includes point of exit processing as standard and offers value added services such as customisation and co-packing. Amethyst has significant experience and
expertise in e-fulfilment, processing orders for UK, European and international end users. In order to deliver multi channel fulfilment for its clients, Amethyst is able to integrate its systems with all parties including web platforms providing receipts, inventory, order status, returns interfaces and excellent reporting. With a demand for shorter lead times,
more customisation and tighter delivery specifications, achieving the right logistics capabilities is essential for the UK toy trade to maintain excellent customer service. In order to ensure effective service, it is vital that the logistics service provider understands the client and their customers, be they retailers or end users. The key expectations should include the ability to work with clients’ customers to meet all delivery requirements, flexible IT systems and processes, ability to deliver B2B, B2C and D2C and also to deliver all the added value activities so often needed such as customisation, display units and specialist packing.
01580 892 211
www.amethystgroup.co.uk
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