Wholesaler Bookspeed will be boosting its warehouse capacity by more than 40% with an ambitious expansion project starting this summer.
The family-owned business has purchased the neighbouring building at its Edinburgh Salamander Yards site, where the company moved to in 2000. The expansion will increase its warehouse and office space by 12,000 square feet. Following a refurbishment, the new space is expected to be fully operational from spring 2025.
Bookspeed was founded as a next-day books wholesale service almost 40 years ago. Today it supplies thousands of UK retailers, to include many gift retailers, with around two million books a year, operating within retail sectors such as gift, culture and heritage, visitor attractions and garden centres. Customers include Oliver Bonas, Blue Diamond, the Natural History Museum and Fortnum and Mason.
The headquarters expansion is part of a wider strategy to increase the company’s capacity to serve the diverse needs of a growing customer base.
“This is an exciting period of positive change for Bookspeed,” states managing director Lewis Dawson. “It’s our mission to put more books into the world and a significantly expanded warehouse will help us do that. This move opens up opportunities to work with a greater range of retailers and improve our service to our diverse range of fantastic customers.
“We already have a strong reputation for shipping out orders quickly, but this expansion allows us to further modernise our warehouse and introduce more improvements and efficiencies into what we do.”
Top: From left to right: Bookspeed’s co-founders Annie Rhodes (left) and Kingsley Dawson (centre), with managing director Lewis Dawson (right).
