Insight - Bite Size May 2022

Supply Chain Update

We are busy preparing for the BTS season, and have passed one of our milestone dates, 1st May, successfully sending out a huge volume of stock to our customers. Our plans for bringing in stock early have worked well with us currently having some 20% more stock in our DC’s this year than last year but with further stock availability continuing to build during May as planned.

However, the world’s supply chains have once again been disrupted by a combination of lockdowns in the Far East and the continuing disruption to shipping. For Banner this has affected some deliveries of overseas badged blazers but we are working with our factories to minimise the disruption and get the stock back to the UK, once made, as quickly as possible, including via sea, train and plane.