6th July 2016 New Truck Attachments at John Lewis Improves Speed of Operations

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PRESS RELEASE
Date: 6th
July 2016
Title: New Truck Attachments at John Lewis Improves Speed of Operations
John Lewis began trading in 1864 on London’s Oxford Street, and has grown to
become one of the UK’s leading omni-channel retailers with 46 John Lewis shops (32
department stores, 12 John Lewis ‘at home’, and shops at St Pancras International and
Heathrow Terminal 2), 346 Waitrose supermarkets, a growing online business, a
production unit and a farm. The business has annual gross sales of over £11 billion,
and the 91,500 permanent staff – also known as Partners – share the benefits and
profits of the business.
To continue with John Lewis’s ongoing expansion and support their end of line logistics,
B&B Attachments have provided the chain with 21 Appliance Clamp attachments for
their forklift truck fleet. These attachments are now in use at John Lewis’s new RDC,
designed to handle white goods, at the Magna Park Campus near Milton Keynes,
which recently opened and now occupies almost 700,000 square feet.
Established in 1980, B&B Attachments Ltd specialise in the design and manufacture of
material handling solutions. As the leading forklift truck attachment company in the UK
and Ireland, B&B prides itself on supplying the most comprehensive range of
attachments available from one provider.
The KAUP T414-1L Appliance Clamp attachment fitted to a fleet of Jungheinrich forklift
trucks have independent sideshift, rubber coated arms and two hydraulic functions, are
used to transport a full range of John Lewis’s domestic appliances.
Ted Weager, Operations Manager Maintenance (Mechanical Handling Equipment)
comments “The attachments provided by B&B Attachments are an integral part of our
operation and has made a big difference to our on-site productivity. The ease of use
and reliable operation of the attachments when moving a diverse range of products,
together with the service given by B&B, has helped with the start up of this new RDC.”
B&B Attachments is the leading UK supplier of forklift truck attachments. The company
was established in 1980, facilitating the sale of goods from suppliers such as KAUP

2. GmbH& Co. KG and MoTec GmbH. B&B also provides hire contracts through its
dedicated Hire Department, and servicing and repairs for each attachment. Its in-house
Design Engineers create attachments for unique materials handling issues. The
company’s Head Office is located at Unit 46 Colbourne Avenue, Nelson Park Industrial
Estate, Cramlington, Northumberland NE23 1WD.
 Interviews with anyone from B&B Attachments can be made by contacting Victoria Adcock –Marketing
Executive on 01670 737373
 Information on B&B Attachments products and services can be found on www.bandbattachments.com.
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