To continue providing specialized supply chain management for fashion and lifestyle brands, Bleckmann has added a new 50,000m2 warehouse in Burton-on-Trent in the Midlands, UK that will provide logistics services for Superdry.
The new warehouse will open on July 1 and will provide jobs for approximately 240 employees.
Reinardt van Oel, Bleckmann’s chief operations officer for Belgium and the UK, stated, “The UK is an important growth market for Bleckmann. Over the last four years we have grown from serving five clients in just one warehouse to managing the operations for 60 brands across seven logistic centers. It shows our capabilities and how much the UK fashion and lifestyle market appreciates the Bleckmann approach.”
The company has added several other UK sites in recent years, bringing its total operational capacity to more than 262,000m2.
In May 2024, the new distribution center in Corby was added to Bleckmann’s operations, offering 55,000m2 of operational space and a unique clear height of 18m. The site is BREEAM Excellent certified and employs around 250 people.
The company also opened a 57,000m2 distribution center at Magna Park near Lutterworth in March 2022, a 37,000m2 site in Bury St Edmunds in February 2022 and an 11,000m2 facility in Swindon in July 2021.