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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; and Italy - 1.
Spicers provides a wholesaling service to its customer base of office products dealers and resellers, who principally supply small and medium-sized offices. It supplies approximately 12,500 dealers throughout Europe and no single dealer customer accounts for more than 4% of Spicers' total revenue.
Spicers' product range supplied across Europe 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 now 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 700,000 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 on-line or by telephone, is a key feature of the business.
For further information visit: www.spicerseurope.com
Head Office:
Spicers
Sawston
Cambridgeshire
CB22 3JG
Tel: +44 (0)1223 822 000
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