Product update from Kirsty & Lizy Product Updates
The Product Team has faced many challenges this season, with transport and supply chain; we are not immune to what is happening across the world with supply chain issues and then the impact of Brexit and Covid.
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Supply Chain Issues – The procuring of raw ingredients has DAIRY been a challenge for ourselves and for our manufacturers who buyG ingredients for our products. We are looking for often FREE E TA RI Fairtrade-certified and Organic supply chains, which narrows the supply that we can choose from. A
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Cardboard – Due to lack of cardboard, M D P O S TA B A EG RAD prices have increased significantly and the lack of supply has meant we have not been able to print as many Christmas DAIRY Tree Biscuit packs as we would have YouG EcanI find these morish V E hoped. TA R GAN FR E biscuits in our hampers. E
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Transport – We have faced times where stock has been ready to leave, but we have not been able to get a lorry to pick up the products due to there being a lack of drivers, also sending the price double to get products into the UK.
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This will continue to impact us into 2022, but we are doing what we can to mitigate against the issues we face with getting our wonderful Traidcraft products into your baskets.
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