Further growth for shower enclosure specialist, Lakes Bathrooms, has seen the company nearly double its storage facility space, just two years after moving to significantly larger premises.
With a whole new mezzanine floor added to its warehouse, space at the company’s UK headquarters expands to 120,000 square feet.
“We could be accused of being under ambitious when we moved to much larger, 60,000 square foot premises in 2012,” said sales and marketing director, Clive Organ. “But we never dreamt then that in such a short space of time we would have demand for the colossal volume of stock we now need to hold in order to satisfy market demand and maintain our 24/48 hour delivery service across the UK to retailers and wholesalers. It’s a nice problem to have, but means that we have to develop the site to cope with our own success.”
The company’s three acre site near the M5, in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, doubled its previous space and consolidated four factory units into one two-storey building with mixed office and warehouse space. Capital investment there continues as work starts to replace the entire 60,000 square foot roof. While this work is underway some stock will be moved off site to one of the company’s legacy warehouses to ensure continuity of availability.
Lakes Bathrooms now holds around 20,000 pieces of stock to provide a minimum of eight weeks worth of product to fulfil demand, with the fastest moving lines stocked to even higher levels. From its headquarters, the company operates its own fleet of 15 delivery vehicles, dispatching daily to over 150 different locations, nationwide.