Bookspeed boosts capacity with warehouse expansion
Bookspeed has celebrated the opening of our expanded warehouse facility, boosting square footage by 50%. The expanded space grows Bookspeed warehouse capacity from more than 21,000 square feet to almost 33,000 square feet.
Our warehouse now holds 400,000 books boosting our services to retailers across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The expansion has been delivered to serve our ambitions to grow, building on a service that already ships out 2.6 million books a year to approximately 3,000 trade customers.
Business milestone
Managing Director Lewis Dawson said: “We’ve come a long way since the business was founded in a small retail unit in Stockbridge, Edinburgh almost 40 years ago. This milestone marks an exciting chapter for us and is the result of decades of hard work building a strong community of retail customers who understand the value of books.
“It’s our mission to get more books out into the world and our warehouse expansion not only improves our operation significantly, but it supports our ambitions to serve even more retail customers and their different complexities in an ever-changing retail landscape."
Bookspeed was founded in Edinburgh in 1986 by Annie Rhodes and Kingsley Dawson with a vision to create a next-day wholesale service for books.
Today, the business still has a reputation for quick order turnaround times but focuses on supporting retailers who don’t specialise in bookselling to curate unique book ranges. Customers include the National Trust, Oliver Bonas, Moonpig, the Natural History Museum, and Blue Diamond, as well as hundreds of independent retailers, museums, galleries, garden centres and visitor attractions.
