MARKS & SPENCER NAMES TIBBETT & BRITTEN TO HANDLE WINE LOGISTICS

MARKS & SPENCER NAMES TIBBETT & BRITTEN TO HANDLE WINE LOGISTICS    Major British food retailer Marks & Spencer has appointed Tibbett & Britten Group plc to handle a logistics contract for the warehousing and distribution of imported wines and spirits in the United Kingdom.
   The three-year “open-book” contract is for expected annual volumes of 4 million cases.
   Tibbett & Britten’s rail-connected Daventry International Distribution Centre will carry out the work. Marks & Spencer’s containerized shipments from mainland Europe, Australasia, North and South America will arrive at the center either by road from Tilbury, Immingham and other ports of entry, or by rail via the Channel Tunnel.
   Tibbett & Britten will provide bonded and conventional storage. It will pick and deliver wines and spirits six days a week to seven large Marks & Spencer distribution centers across the U.K. Marks & Spencer will then delivers the goods to stores in the U.K. and overseas. As part of this process, Tibbett & Britten will pick, apply local-language labels and pack pallets of wines for re-export to M&S stores and franchises all over the world.
   Tibbett & Britten said that it has recruited 30 staff for the operation. Space for some 3,825,000 bottles has been allocated at the Daventry International Distribution Centre.