LPP
The flagship store for the Cropp brand
“ I remember when I joined the company 10 years ago - we used to have 10,000 square meters of warehousing - our turnover and the store collateral were both small back then .”
Back in 2005 , LPP had just over 200 retail stores , but by 2015 this number had shot up to over 1,600 supported by a 70,000 square metre logistics centre .
He explains how the youthfulness of the organisation had actually facilitated rapid growth and had given LPP the freedom to create modern solutions : “ We had the luxury of creating our logistics operations from scratch , which differs from many retailers ; when they need to scale their operations for periods of constant growth , they often have to squeeze them into existing facilities . Saying that , we were able to expand production at our site from 250,000 pieces per day in 2008 , to 1,200,000 in 2015 .”
The flagship store for the House brand
Supply chain strategy Soltys also explains that , in order to accommodate the massive growth of its retail stores network , LPP had to ensure that its entire
48 March 2016