May.8--SEPHORA, the leading French retail beauty chain and member of the luxury products group LVMH, has extended its logistics partnership with Kuehne + Nagel for a further three years.
    The company said that Kuehne + Nagel in Italy has been the company's national distribution centre in Italy since 2005. With the newly signed agreement, Kuehne + Nagel will expand its services to supply the customer's outlets in various European countries including Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Poland and Turkey as well as in the Middle East and in Asia.
    In total, more than 300 stores, 112 of them in Italy, will be served according to the new agreement. As a result, Kuehne + Nagel expects to handle up to 40 million pieces of fragrances, make-ups, skin care and other beauty care products per year for the customer.
     The Sephora logistics operations will be provided from a new 12,900-square metre facility, compliant with the latest security and "green" standards and equipped with large photovoltaic solar power installations.
     Located in the Logistics Park of Santa Cristina e Bissone in the Lombardy region - some 50 kilometres southeast of Milan - the new facility ideally complements the existing 90,000-square metre area Kuehne + Nagel already operates in the park.
     Maurizio Stroppa, supply chain manager of Sephora, explained: "The new centre is a key element for our present and future growth in Eastern Europe, Far East and South East Asia."
    Ruggero Poli, managing director of Kuehne + Nagel Italy said: "We are delighted that the customer has extended the contract and thus demonstrated its confidence in Kuehne + Nagel expertise, capabilities and staff. Even more so as it concerns the internationalisation of the logistics operation."

(Source:shippingazette)