Storehouse: BRS prepares
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• BRS's newly-won 225 million distribution contract with high street shops group Storehouse will swell Leyland Daf's order books over the next five years because it will be supplying vehicles to replace Storehouse's current fleet, which includes Daf, Leyland and Mercedes-Benz.
Storehouse subsidiaries Mothercare and Habitat already use BRS for distribution. Sister company BHS does not. This contract, phase one of an extension of existing agreements, means that the BRS Storehouse fleet will be standardised, with bodywork from bodybuilder Ray Smith.
Up to 24.5 million is being spent on making five transshipment centres operational. BRS aims to use 24-tonne double-deck trailers for 75% of Storehouse's distribution. The BRS centres in Glasgow, Manchester, Avonmouth, Wallingford and Teesside will not be used for stock holding, but as bases for overnight distribution instead. Although Storehouse's subsidiaries all have their own liveries on vehicles, BRS wants them to he interchangeable and eventually to carry the same livery, which will be designed by Storehouse chairman Sir Terence Conran.
Past problems with Mothercare distribution should be cleared up, says Storehouse chief executive of retail services Pat Diamond: "These problems are behind us and we are confident that with BRS we shall overcome them."