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U.K. sportswear chain JD Sports Fashion Plc said Brexit red tape has severely tested its operations and it’s opening new warehouses in the European Union to avoid the hassles of customs checks.
JD Sports invests in warehouses to handle ‘adverse consequences of Brexit’ and as UK shopping moves further online
14/09/2021
JD Sports Group is investing in warehouses to serve shoppers buying online in both the UK and the EU, as it continues to deal with challenges from Covid-19 to Brexit that continue to hit the supply chain.
Britain’s biggest sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion is likely to build a distribution centre within the European Union and create around 1,000 jobs there to avoid paying post-Brexit tariffs, its chairman said on Tuesday.
Peter Cowgill, executive chairman, said disruption in shipping goods to mainland Europe meant costs in the ‘double digit millions’.
JD boss says Brexit is costing it 'double-digit millions' and 1,000 jobs could move to EU
09/02/2021
JD Sports Chairman Peter Cowgill said bureaucracy, red tape and delays in shipping goods to mainland Europe has meant the business is losing millions of pounds.
I’m having to drive from Glasgow to Dover to pick up food from EU: Industry leaders warn over empty shelves due to Brexit
19/09/2021
Hotel and restaurant staff are travelling hundreds of miles to pick up produce as Britain’s lorry driver shortage leaves supplies stranded in warehouses, industry leaders say.
Irish Amazon customers to avoid Brexit delivery delays and VAT charges as Dublin warehouse set to open
29/01/2021
Amazon is currently on the verge of taking a 650,000sq ft unit at the Mountpark logistics centre in Baldonnell.
Huge warehouse in secret location holds £5m-worth of medical products and food.
It is the latest bid by a major supermarket to minimise post-Brexit trade disruption with the EU.
Drugs and other medical supplies to be shipped over on seven new ferry routes.
Lorries will need permission from new HMRC computer system before heading for Dover.
A shortage of fruit pickers in the UK is set to spread to warehouse workers in the run-up to Christmas, the boss of toy chain The Entertainer has warned.
The Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce said they have been working “night and day” on inquiries from UK companies in recent weeks.
The latest Government Business Insights report reveals that the transportation and storage sector has been hit hardest by Covid and Brexit. / ParcelHero says the shock result shows that more supply chain companies have closed and fewer surviving firms are currently trading than in any other sector.
Supermarket chain says it may have to fly in fruit as it books extra warehouse space to stockpile goods
Brexit: Inside Portsmouth's new £25m ‘white elephant’ border control post sitting empty after government’s inspection U-turn leaves city council absorbing ‘phenomenal cost’
05/07/2022
PORTSMOUTH’S newly built £25m, two-acre border control post has been dubbed a ‘white elephant’ by port bosses following an ‘appalling’ government U-turn.
It may have been over three years since the UK formally left the European Union but UK brands and retailers continue to face a slew of challenges in navigating post-Brexit trade. Drapers identifies the persistent pain points and how they are being managed.
Britain imports radioactive isotopes to detect and cure cancer. Border chaos at Dover would make them useless in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
The boss of one of Britain's big retailers says Brexit has turned out to be "considerably worse" than he feared.
As the prospect of a no-deal Brexit looms, some British companies are stockpiling goods. Owners of frozen and chilled storage space say they're fully booked until the middle of 2019.
A cold storage firm says it has run out of room because the food industry is stockpiling in the run-up to Brexit.
Retailer JD Sports is to open a 65,000 sq ft warehouse near Dublin to tackle post-Brexit trading problems.
The Netherlands is reaping the benefits of Brexit with a boom in British businesses seeking warehouse space.
‘We lost about 10% of our revenue, which was clients leaving the UK for Europe’
Brexit Delays Spark Rush for Warehouse Space
11/11/2020
Bonded customs warehouses are in demand to manage duties / U.K. firms exporting food to Ireland snap up Dublin storage