Leading Asian forwarding and logistics group Kerry Logistics has been selected by the UK retailerMarks & Spencer (M&S) as its logistics partner in Greater China.
The contract includes logistics services across the supply chain of M&S, from suppliers’pick-up to direct delivery to retail stores across the region. As part of the agreement, KerryLogistics will manage and operate M&S’s national distribution centre in mainland China as wellas its regional distribution centre in Hong Kong (HKRDC). It will manage inbound and outboundsupply chains and a wide range of value-added services, including packing and unpacking,re-labeling and steaming.
The HKRDC is located within Kerry Logistics’ product customisation and consolidation centrein Tai Po, Hong Kong, which is in line with M&S’s environmental and ethical policy. Thispurpose-built facility has incorporated green technology into the design and construction of thebuilding with the aim to comply with the environmental standards LEED (Gold) and HK-BEAM (Gold).
With a total area of 25,700 sqm, the regional facility is equipped with Hong Kong’s largestgarment-on-hanger centre. It supports the daily replenishment of all M&S retail stores in HongKong, covering hanging and boxed garments as well as accessories, footwear and home products, whilefood is serviced from Kerry Logistics’ cold-store facility located in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong.
“One of the factors in awarding this contract was that Kerry Logistics specialises in bothfashion retail and cold chain logistics, meeting our different needs on clothing and foodmerchandise under one roof,” said Simeon Piasecki, Regional Managing Director for Asia at M&S(Asia Pacific).
M&S is one of the UK’s leading retailers of clothing, home products and foods, sourcedfrom around 2,000 suppliers globally.
