24 July 2008
Share Price
118.25 GB pence

Spicers

Spicers is the number one European wholesaler of office products; it has leading positions in each of the UK, Ireland, France and the Benelux region, and it is building its position in continental Europe with development businesses in Germany, Spain and Italy. Its network of distribution centres comprises: UK - 9; Ireland - 1; France - 6; Benelux - 1; Germany - 2; Spain - 2; Italy - 1.

Spicers provides a wholesaling service to its customer base of office products dealers and resellers, who principally supply smaller and medium-sized offices. It supplies approximately 13,000 dealers throughout Europe and no single dealer customer accounts for more than 4% of Spicers' total revenue. Spicers' product range of up to 22,000 product lines comprises its own 5-Star brand and other branded products of traditional stationery items, electronic office supplies, office furniture, janitorial supplies and office catering and vending provisions. Its range is communicated to its dealers and the offices they supply through printed catalogues and electronic systems; orders are principally submitted to Spicers on-line or by other electronic means.

Spicers offers its dealer customers a same-day or an overnight, next-day delivery service; it also provides the dealers with marketing and promotional support. The business is highly transaction-intensive with approximately 800,000 line-items being processed weekly. The maintenance of reliable and efficient systems that are capable of handling the high volume of customer orders received daily, either by telephone or on-line, is a key feature of the business.

For further information visit: www.spicers.net

Head Office:
Spicers
Sawston
Cambridgeshire
CB22 3JG
Tel: +44 (0)1223 834 555




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