Clipper to open Northampton DC to handle Zara e-fulfilment

May 15, 2015 Emma Shone


 

Clipper has signed a lease on a new DC to handle its new contract with Zara parent company Inditex. The 343,000 square foot building, rented from Prologis in Prologis Grange Park, Northampton, will be the base for Clipper’s contract with Zara to handle e-fulfilment of the retailer’s online sales. The new DC should be fully operational by autumn 2015, and will create around 1,000 jobs in the Northampton area. Prologis UK MD Andrew Griffiths said: “We decided to build speculatively […]




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