FKI Logistex Delivers ?6 Million Project for Giant Retailer

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The new Zappos.com warehouse and distribution site incorporates a variety of FKI Logistex equipment.

Reflecting its increased focus on the rapidly growing e-commerce and home shopping sectors, FKI Logistex has announced the

successful completion of a ?6 million project for the Internet shoe and apparel retailer, Zappos.com. This contract called for a global leader in integrated material handling solutions to design, supply, install and integrate an extensive automated handling system at a major new primary distribution centre. Featuring an end-to-end, integrated solution designed by FKI Logistex to boost product handling efficiency and capacity significantly and help Zappos.com meet increasing customer demand, the systems encompass receiving, pre-sort, put-away, picking, packing and shipping.

"Zappos.com is a major e-commerce success story," said Jerry Woodhouse, European Managing Director, FKI Logistex. "By focusing on delivering value and excellent investment returns, we are achieving growing success in the expanding home shopping sector. FKI Logistex is proving time and again it has the integration expertise and materials handling technologies necessary to provide effective solutions to meet this market's demanding performance criteria on output, reliability, accuracy and ultrafast order fulfillment. FKI Logistex began work on the Zappos.com installation in late June 2006, with the extensive project being fast-tracked through to recent completion. The new Zappos. com warehouse and distribution site incorporates a variety of FKI Logistex equipment including UniSort IV belt-powered pop-up wheel sortation systems, high-speed UniSort XV sliding-shoe sortation systems, saw tooth merges, Accuzone transfer conveyors and Print-and-Apply Modules.

The Zappos.com installation is backed by one of the largest Customer Support and Service organizations in the industry, with FKI Logistex technicians and engineers on call worldwide, 365 days per year to provide rapid response and back-up and allow companies like Zappos.com to keep their customer promise (www.fkilogistex.com).