{"id":20767,"date":"2021-01-28T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=20767"},"modified":"2021-01-28T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:44:17","slug":"german-branch-for-vw-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/01\/28\/german-branch-for-vw-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"GERMAN BRANCH FOR VW HERITAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bremen-Racking-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bremen-Racking-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long established UK classic car parts specialist, Heritage Parts Centre has cemented their commitment to supplying their international customers post-Brexit, by opening a European Distribution Centre in Bremen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Stocking the 35-year-old company\u2019s top moving product lines for restoring and maintaining classic Porsche and Volkswagen vehicles, European customers can continue to shop as they did in 2020, without costly taxes and potential delays waiting for parcels to cross the channel.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage\u2019s CEO, Barney Dines explained the thought process behind the move: \u201cThroughout the whole transition period, we have done all we can to remain positive and productive to ensure that we would be in the strongest position possible once Brexit finally happened. We started planning this expansion over two-years ago, and the first parcel left our German depot right on time, in January 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barney\u2019s business partner, and Operations Director, Mark Rickard explained further: \u201cIt was a massive logistics operation for a company of our size, and we couldn\u2019t have possibly done it without our team, including a number of native German speakers. Moving thousands of parts from the UK to Germany was the least of our challenges, we had to find the right-sized site in a central location, install racking, and recruit local staff, engage with local distribution companies, roll out our business systems, and all during a global pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This European base doesn\u2019t just offer a benefit to customers when it comes to buying. Heritage\u2019s purchasing strategy has been carefully considered too, with deliveries now arriving from European suppliers at the doors of the German office. Heritage Co-owner and Purchasing Director Paul Howard said: \u201ccontinuity in cost price and supply chain is critical for us. We have 25,000 SKUs, and carry \u00a33.5 million in stock, selling products to both B2B and B2C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a company that started on a Sussex driveway in the early eighties, this is an amazing achievement for all involved.\u00a0More information from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwheritage.com\/\">www.vwheritage.com<\/a> <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Long established UK classic car parts specialist, Heritage Parts Centre has cemented their commitment to supplying their international customers post-Brexit, by opening a European Distribution <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/01\/28\/german-branch-for-vw-heritage\/\" title=\"GERMAN BRANCH FOR VW HERITAGE\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}