Sports article manufacturer FILA has signed a ten-year, €100m contract with TNT Fashion, a TNTExpress business unit that specialises in network logistics. Under the contract TNT Fashion will be
fully responsible for distributing FILA goods to all European destinations and will be involved inbringing in the finished products from the Far East.In less than three months, TNT delivered a fully operational distribution warehouse to FILA. Thenew warehouse at Rosendaal in the Netherlands will replace existing distribution centres of thefast-growing sports brand in Germany, Italy, France and Spain. The ten-year contract, which isworth more than €100 million, will create new employment opportunities for almost 120 people at acompletely new site.
The new site will use the PKMS warehouse management system of Manhattan Associates. This systemguarantees fast order picking of many millions of items each year and satisfies all the agreedquality standards.
“After positive experience in the past we want to embed our cooperation with TNT Fashion forEuropean distribution in a long-term partnership,” said Bob Galvin, Chief Operating Officer of FILAInc. “TNT Fashion is a strong partner who will support us in our objective of improving theefficiency of our supply chain.”
“We are proud that FILA has chosen TNT Fashion as its partner for network distribution for thecoming ten years,” said Cor Noorlander, Managing Director of TNT Fashion. “Within just a fewmonths, TNT Fashion delivered a showpiece and we see this cooperation as confirmation of ourreputation as a pan-European service provider.”
The new ten-year contract offers TNT Fashion an opportunity to develop further in the market forfashion & lifestyle goods, a market eminently suited to the network systems of TNT Fashion andits partners united under the Fashionnet brand.
