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Clipper Logistics to use new warehouse in Sheffield for boohoo/PLT contract

Last updated: 14:48 25 Apr 2018 BST, First published: 09:48 25 Apr 2018 BST

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Clipper now works with both boohoo and ASOS, two of AIM's largest companies

Clipper Logistics PLC (LON:CLG) is to use a new 600,000 sq ft site in Sheffield to fulfil a contract for boohoo.com subsidiary Pretty Little Things.

The new contract with start in July and eventually see 1,200 staff taken on for a seven-day working week, though Clipper expects automation and mechanisation to be introduced over the next five years.

READ: Boohoo skyrockets upwards: sales nearly double, revenues up 97% year-over-year

Steve Parkin, Clipper’s executive chairman, said it was one of its most significant contract wins.

Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane, joint CEOs of boohoo.com PLC (LON:BOO), added they hoped it would be the start of a long, successful and prosperous partnership.

Clipper already provides logistics and e-fulfilment to many of the major UK online and traditional retailers including ASOS, John Lewis and Sainsbury’s.

Shares in Clipper rose 3% to 455p.

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