Offering over 17,000 items from its product portfolio, including leading stationery brand 5Star™, and operating from eight strategically located distribution centres, Spicers is one of the UK’s largest wholesale providers of stationery and office supplies. Following acquisition by venture capitalist firm Better Capital, Spicers wanted to improve efficiency and reduce cost in its MHE fleet – and after an extensive tendering process chose a fleet of new Crown materials handling equipment, all fitted with the latest version of Crown’s innovative InfoLink® fleet management system.
Infolink has enabled Spicers to reduce the size of their forklift truck fleet from 154 units down to 86 units with maintenance and damage billing reducing from over £11,000 per month to less than £1000.00 per month – a reduction of over 90%. Further fleet utilisation will result in a further 15% reduction in the fleet size, down to around 73 units.