SEKO Logistics Continues to Invest to Keep Pace With Rapid Growth in UK Retailers' Online Sales

LONDON, July 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

SEKO Logistics is keeping pace with phenomenal growth in UK retailers' online sales by investing in a further 152,000 sq ft logistics centre to support its omni-channel services for global fulfilment, delivery management, returns solutions and ecommerce development and design.

The new location in Milton Keynes follows the opening of a similar size logistics centre in Northampton last year and the launch last October of a dedicated omni-channel facility in Cranbury, New Jersey, for British retail brands starting out in the U.S. market. SEKO Logistics is also opening a new centre at Heathrow Airport.

Keith O'Brien, SEKO Logistics' Group Managing Director, said: "Online sales generated by UK retailers from international markets are forecast to grow sevenfold to £28 billion by 2020 and already stand at £4 billion a year. Analysis shows that international sales growth is dramatically outpacing the domestic market and will increase from its current 14% of total online sales to 40% over the next six years. We've worked with retailers and e-tailers for over a decade and have focused our investment in facilities, technology, people and services to enable them to respond to new consumer buying trends and fast track their way into the $1 trillion global ecommerce market."

SEKO's solutions ensure consumers experience a retail brand in exactly the same way from a marketing perspective, whether they are buying via mobile, web, retail or catalogue sales channels. Since the launch of its omni-channel division, SEKO Logistics has seen a 40% year-on-year increase in its retail logistics business with clients such as Marks and Spencer, APAC Sale, Lulu Guinness and NPW.

The Milton Keynes facility will employ 150 staff and also support the company's latest retail offering, SEKO Store Development Services, which helps expanding retail businesses to open stores faster with greater control and cost efficiency, and increases sales weeks per store in new markets.

"Investing in this latest facility reinforces our position as a leading provider of logistics services in the UK and it will be a flagship operation in SEKO's global network. It enables us to keep pace with opportunities we are being offered by retailers and e-tailers and demonstrates the unique choice of supply chain services we deliver to leading British and global brands as well as entrepreneurial SMEs with ecommerce-based businesses," Keith added.

Jamie Roche, PR, +44(0)1344631883, jamie@jamierochepr.co.uk