Wincanton announced it has been given a new five-year contract with luxury lifestyle retailer, The White Company. The contract begins immediately and will see Wincanton provide multi-channel fulfilment services for The White Company, including international e-commerce order fulfilment, store replenishment for its footprint UK and Ireland of over 60 stores, and value-added services for around 1.6m customers annually.
Initially, Wincanton will manage The White Company existing warehouse facility in Swan Valley, Northamptonshire. Over the course of the next 18 months, from May 2022, Wincanton will oversee the migration of The White Company’s central warehousing and distribution operations to its own e-fulfilment facility at the WEB, in Rockingham. As part of this move, Wincanton will introduce further customer experience improvements, operational capabilities, and support capacity for growth, implementing higher levels of automation to drive efficiency. The migration to the WEB is due to complete by late-Summer 2023 and, once transitioned, The White Company will utilise a significant proportion of the WEB’s automated capacity.
Around 175 colleagues, primarily engaged in fulfilment and warehousing services, will transfer from The White Company to join the 20,000 Wincanton team as part of this partnership.
Source: Wincanton
