One Below has taken haulage in-house for the first time with a fleet of 10 branded lorries.
The Mercedes Actros trucks are delivering to One Below’s 60 stores across the UK from its 160,000 sq ft warehouse in Darton, Barnsley.
The rapidly growing variety discounter, launched by Poundworld founder Chris Edwards and his son, also Chris, opened its first store less than a year ago.
It now aims to grow the estate to 75 with a further 15 openings in the first half of this year. The leased lorries would save £200k a year on third-party haulage companies, said Edwards Jr, One Below MD.
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The chain stocks 8,000 products costing from 29p to £1, in 10 departments. Some 60% of the range is fmcg.
In October it opened what it claimed was the “UK’s biggest pound shop” in a 12,000 sq ft former Poundworld store in Bradford.
Commenting on the new lorry fleet, transport manager Mark Heathershaw said: “In September I accepted the challenge to bring down the transport costs and introduce an own-fleet solution to one of the country’s fastest-growing discount retailers. Both have been achieved.”
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