Swiss Kuehne & Nagel To Carry Out UK House of Fraser Home Delivery Services
Swiss logistics company Kuehne & Nagel International AG started to carry out the home delivery services for made-to-order furniture of UK department stores operator House of Fraser as of the beginning of February 2007, Kuehne & Nagel reported on February 8, 2007.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Under the terms of the contract, Kuehne & Nagel will be responsible for the warehousing and for some 30,000 deliveries annually to customers across UK and Ireland. House of Fraser will make cost savings through reduced inventory by a closer alignment of order to delivery time and through the support of Kuehne & Nagel’s information technology (IT) and booking processes. The logistics company will integrate House of Fraser business into its furniture distribution
network which is used by other unnamed UK furniture retailers for more than 175,000 deliveries annually.
Kuehne & Nagel (www.kuehne-nagel.com) employs 45,000 at 830 locations in more than 100 countries worldwide. The company provides seafreight, airfreight, contract logistics and overland businesses and IT-based supply chain
management services. Its UK and Ireland organisation operates at 80 locations and employs more than 10,000.
