Kimberly-Clark, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of consumer hygiene products, has renewed its contract with pallet pool operator LPR. The three-year contract extension will see LPR continue to handle distribution for all Kimberly- Clark’s Kleenex brand tissue and Andrex toilet paper into regional distribution centres throughout the UK. Additionally, LPR is soon to take on all Kimberly- Clark’s movement of standard 1000 x 1200 mm pallets across Europe.

The deal will cover all product flows into the UK and Dutch markets and will see the amount of pallet movements currently undertaken by LPR on behalf of Kimberly-Clark increase by nearly 50 per cent. LPR has been awarded the distribution of products from the company’s manufacturing bases in the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Switzerland, as well
as additional volumes from the UK. Products to be transported under the increased contract will include Huggies nappies from Kimberly-Clark’s Barton-in-Humber plant and Page, the
Dutch retailer-brand bathroom tissue. The two organisations have worked side by side for the last three years and the extended contract is a sign of the strength of their cultural fit, according to Jane Gorick, managing director of LPR UK: “Our relationship with Kimberly-Clark has been a productive one from the very outset. LPR is dedicated to providing choice within the UK marketplace and we aim to differentiate ourselves from the competition on
the basis of the standard of the service we provide, the quality of our pallets and the
efficiency of our business model.”
Peter Surtees, director, European supply chain, for Kimberly-Clark, commented: “LPR
has delivered a welcome element of competition to the UK marketplace since its entry in 2004. As a company, Kimberly-Clark likes to challenge the established norms and if by so doing we can promote competition throughout the pooled pallet market, we feel that this can only be of benefit to the UK marketplace as a whole. Through our relationship with LPR, we have met all the logistics objectives we set out to achieve together. We are delighted to be extending the scope of our contract with them and look forward to continuing to strengthen our ties over the next three years.”