ENVIRONMENT

GREENER TRANSPORT

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GREENER TRANSPORT

Daily deliveries of the best brands mean customers can always get a fresh fashion fix. Thanks to our innovative green logistics activities, it also means customers’ favourite brands are not only good value; they also don’t come with a high environmental price tag.

The “Green Clause”

We have a “green clause” with our logistics partner DHL and together are continually working on new ideas to increase the fuel efficiency of our vehicles to reduce costs and their impact on the environment.

Our efforts have been recognised by the Carbon Trust who awarded us a Low Carbon Innovation Award in 2009 for our work in distribution.

Looking good, feeling good

We have 9 electric trucks including Europe’s largest zero emission truck. We’ve got double deck lorries so we can fit in even more great fashion and homeware in the same space to get more to your stores at once, but at a lower carbon cost per item. You feel good, we feel good. Over half of our delivery trucks have aerodynamic body shaping. Being aerodynamic is not only about looking gorgeous, it saves fuel and reduces carbon emissions by up to 10%.

We lorry-share!

We look for like-minded retailers to join us to keep lorries full of stock, not air, and keep unnecessary mileage down. We’ve given our trucks a nose job: by putting a “nose cone” on our big trucks this streamlines their shape and reduces wind resistance, increasing fuel economy. Our 100 double deck trucks all feature nose cones, saving an estimated 159 tonnes of carbon per year. We’re trialling one of the first hybrid diesel/electric trucks in Europe.