Tradeteam secures five-year Mitchells & Butlers deal

March 4, 2010 - PRLog -- The agreement marks an extension of a successful four year partnership during which Tradeteam took responsibility for distribution of drinks to Mitchells & Butlers’ estate of around 2,000 pubs, restaurants and bars nationwide.

Under the terms of the new contract, Tradeteam will provide an end to end solution including forecasting, stock replenishment, overseas inbound freight, order capture and customer service.

This is in addition to Tradeteam’s core services involving the delivery of eight million units of beers, wines, spirits, ciders, and minerals per annum.

The deal will also see Tradeteam provide new services to Mitchells & Butlers including the distribution of snacks alongside drinks.

Gavin Murdoch, Managing Director at Tradeteam said: “We are delighted that Mitchells and Butlers has once again recognised Tradeteam as its trusted service partner.

“In the last 18-months we have made significant investments in people and systems to ensure that we continue to add value to Mitchells & Butlers’ operations. We have jointly initiated a supply chain development programme and this contract extension will allow both parties to fully realise the expected benefits.  

“We are looking forward to helping Mitchells & Butlers achieve its long-term growth plans.”

Tradeteam Account Director Keith McCray, added: “This contract extension demonstrates the strong partnership of trust that Tradeteam has built with Mitchells & Butlers and the clear confidence the company has in our distribution network and service excellence.

“Our stock ownership solution has allowed Mitchells & Butlers to retain a direct relationship with its product suppliers without the need to purchase via a wholesaler. This not only means it has direct control of distribution costs and performance, but leaves the business free to focus on its core activity of running pubs.”

Susan Martindale, Purchasing Director for Mitchells & Butlers, added: “Mitchells & Butlers recognises the significant progress made in our drinks logistics operation over the past four years and we are delighted to take this opportunity to extend our relationship with Tradeteam.

“Tradeteam’s approach to operational and process innovation, together with their excellent service record, makes them our preferred logistics partner in this sector.”

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Issued on behalf of Tradeteam by Adessi. For more information contact Beth Leonard on (0113) 256 9999 or beth.leonard@adessi.co.uk

Notes to editors:

Tradeteam is part of the world’s largest logistics company – DHL.  Employing over 2,200 people with 600 vehicles, the business is the number 1 drinks logistics supplier in the UK with a turnover in excess of £155m, delivering to more than 30,000 ‘on trade’ outlets each week and more than 7,000 primary (off-trade) trips each month.  Tradeteam picks 50 million items per year at 99.88% accuracy.  Customers include Molson Coors, Anheuser-Busch Inbev, Mitchells & Butlers and JD Wetherspoon.

Mitchells & Butlers owns and operates around 2,000 high quality pubs in prime locations nationwide.  The Group's predominantly freehold, managed estate is biased towards large pubs in residential locations.  With around 3% of the pubs in the UK, Mitchells & Butlers has 10% of industry sales and average weekly sales per pub almost four times greater than that of the average UK pub.
Mitchells & Butlers' leading portfolio of brands and formats includes Ember Inns, Harvester, Sizzling Pub Co., Toby Carvery, Vintage Inns, Crown Carveries, All Bar One, O'Neill's, Nicholson's and Browns.  In addition, Mitchells & Butlers operates a large number of individual city centre and residential pubs.

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Tradeteam is part of the world’s largest logistics company, DHL, and is the UK’s number one drinks supplier with a turnover of £160m +. It was formed in 1995 with the sole aim of offering brewers, drinks’ brand owners & retailers tailored services.