Tibbett & Britten: filling its boots
Tibbett & Britten has won a GBP40 million contract with Boots.
Tibbett & Britten has been chosen ahead of rival providers to manage and operate all transport services for Boots. The UK retailer is hoping to make its transport activities simpler and most cost effective, and if Tibbett & Britten can achieve these goals for Boots it should be in an improved position to win similar contracts for other UK companies.
Tibbett & Britten has won a major logistics contract to manage all transport services for Boots throughout the UK and Ireland. Commencing on 1 August the GBP40 million a year contract will give Tibbett & Britten exclusive responsibility for Boot’s primary trunking and secondary store deliveries, as well as managing its distribution support functions.
Boots’ main warehousing complex is located in Beeston in Nottinghamshire and has 17 distribution centers all of which will be managed by Tibbett & Britten. Tibbett & Britten will employ approximately 200 people, consisting of transport management and related support staff at the Beeston headquarters and 50 drivers from the Sherwood Park distribution center in Nottingham.
A further 90 personnel will join the company from TDG, whose existing Boots operations are being taken over by Tibbett & Britten. Other transport providers for Boots, such as Bartrums, Bibby, Roadferry, Clearway and Wests will operate under Tibbett & Britten.
Boots’ chilled food distribution warehouse at Dronfield and Chelmsford will also be managed by Tibbett & Britten but operated by one of the group’s largest rivals, Exel. The contract will run for seven years.
By working together with Tibbett & Britten, Boots hopes to improve the way it delivers products to stores and to make its transport activities simpler and more cost-effective.
With relations already established with Boots it would be reasonable to assume that Exel would have been very interested in the contract that Tibbett & Britten have secured for themselves. A company of the scale of Boots deciding to completely outsource its transport management and operations is a logistics provider’s dream and Tibbett & Britten will be delighted to secure such a lucrative deal. If it manages to achieve the improved efficiencies Boots is hoping for, the deal could also put Tibbett & Britten in a stronger position to win further deals with large UK businesses looking to make a similar move.
