Online fashion retailer Boohoo Group has confirmed that its customers in the US will no longer be served from its distribution centre in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, as the company announced changes to its operations in the US.
In a statement on 11 September 2024, the group said that all US orders will now be fulfilled from the UK, from its ‘state-of-the-art’ automated distribution centre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
It’s 1.1 million ft² Elizabethtown distribution centre is operated by a third party and leased by Boohoo. Having operated the facility since August 2023, the group says it will now sublet the facility, with operations at the site expected to come to an end by 11 November 2024.
This move, Boohoo says, is ‘the latest in a series of steps as part of the strategy to reposition the group for sustainable, profitable growth’. It believes that these changes will result in a ‘significant reduction in ongoing costs over the medium term’.
The group’s foray into US-based distribution was somewhat short-lived, having announced its US expansion – with DHL Supply Chain as a partner – in October 2022.
Boohoo says that it ‘remains excited about the opportunity in the US and has been developing wider routes-to-market strategies, the first of which is the recent launch of Nasty Gal in Nordstrom stores’.
It also states that it is in ‘advanced talks with major US brands with regard to new routes to market for other brands within the group’.
Following the undeniable success of IntraLogisteX 2024 in the UK, the exhibition is heading across the Atlantic next month, with IntraLogisteX USA taking place on 22-23 October 2024 at Miami Beach Convention Centre.
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