10m PALLETFORCE/DANDYS DEAL KEEPS UK ON IT'S FEET...!

Dandys Rock Salt .co.uk have today announced news of a deal reached between Dandy’s and award winning Palletforce member, Farralls Transport for the successful company to become their sole pallet network provider in the UK for the next two years; with a view to extend the deal in 2013 by an additional five years.

As the only UK based rock salt supplier able to have continuously supplied the general public as well as businesses up and down the country with much needed grit during the worst three winters in over two decades it was pivotal for Dandy’s to ensure that they have a sole provider and one that would excel all year round no matter the weather or volume of pallets being sent out.

The deal, worth an estimated £10million over the next seven years, is the result of an enormous amount of hard work and outstanding levels of customer service given by the team at Farralls Transport and other Palletforce members when delivering Dandy’s freight over the past eight months.

Managing Director of Dandy's Rock Salt .co.uk, Adam Dandy, commented; "Farralls Transport are absolutely second to none. They are permanently focused on continuously improving their service to us, with weekly meetings taking place with our Logistics Supervisor and General Manager. They listen to our concerns and act quickly to meet our needs; Mike and Elaine Farrall and their whole team have given us the confidence to commit to them as our sole provider for the foreseeable future.

As a user of pallet networks for over five years we have tried many other suppliers and can wholeheartedly say that the service our customers receive from Palletforce as a network is without doubt the best in the industry."

The Dandy's contract also includes the distribution for all of the company’s spring and summer goods from their garden related websites, Dandys Topsoil .co.uk and Dandys Garden Centre .co.uk.

DANDY'S UNVEIL LATEST DELIVERY VEHICLES...

Following the unprecedented early demand for rock salt and de-icing products, Dandy's have once again extended their fleet in order to keep up with demand.

The company's standard fleet consists of two multi drop, crane offload vehicles which service Chester and North Wales with deliveries of coal, logs and salt throughout the winter and landscaping and gardening supplies during the summer, two small vans for access to the harder to reach parts of North Wales and an eight wheeler, high sided bulk tipper for delivering loose loads up to 20 tonnes or 40 cubic metres!

Since Dandy's began selling online way back in 2004 the fleet has been expanded and improved and the use of pallet networks employed to allow the company to reach customers all over the country. Last year Dandy's partnered up with local hauliers, Farralls Transport, in order to continue to keep up with the high demand for salt.

Farralls, part of the Palletforce network, now take care of all of Dandy's nationwide bulk bag and palletised deliveries and following a successful trading period have liveried up one of their new curtain side delivery vehicles in the Dandy's colour scheme and logo.

The truck will be running goods from Dandy's HQ in Deeside down to the Palletforce central sorting hub in the Midlands ready for despatch to customers across the UK.

This is the latest addition to the Dandy's delivery fleet and it follows hot on the heels of Dandy's two electric cars which were added to the company fleet as part of Dandy's commitment to becoming carbon neutral by 2015.