CI Logistics Provide New Conveyor System For Europe’s Largest Calendar Retailer

In just eight years, Calendar Club has grown into Europe’s largest calendar seller. With 300 temporary retail outlets popping up in time for Christmas, the company now boasts over 2,700 calendars in its range.

It is precisely this consistent growth that has resulted in Calendar Club recently moving to bigger, more modern premises. And when it came to installing the conveyor system in its new Exeter headquarters, CI Logistics was on hand to provide the bespoke solution the company was looking for.

CI Logistics Installs New Automated Conveyor at Calendar Club HQ

To cope with the increasing demand for its products, Calendar Club recently moved to its new Exe Box premises on the Marsh Barton Trading Estate in Exeter. The site is now the company’s UK headquarters and distribution centre.

Four companies were invited to tender for the design and installation of a new automated conveyor system and CI Logistics came out on top.

Gee Barrett, Warehouse Manager for Calendar Club, explained why CI Logistics was chosen: “They demonstrated that they really understood what we wanted – not something standard or off the shelf, but a bespoke system. Price was important too and they were willing to give us favourable financial terms.”

CI Logistics designed an automated conveyor system consisting of four picking lines which index onto the main conveyor taking the products to despatch. Utilising parts of the existing conveyor system as per Calendar Club’s specification, operators pick the products from the live storage on either side of each of the picking lines.

Empty wrapping and boxes can then be placed up onto the dunnage belts which run above each conveyor – a process which, according to Barrett, has “revolutionised our packaging disposal procedure”.

In addition, CI was able to install the new system to Calendar Club’s timetable when other suppliers had been unable to deliver across the bank holiday weekend. Barrett concludes: “CI Logistics has worked hard to give us exactly what we want. It’s a good company with helpful staff who are always willing to offer advice when we need it.”

CI Logistics supplies overhead conveyors, floor conveyors, garment conveyors both in the UK and internationally. For more information about our range of conveyors, please call us now on 0116 276 1691.