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Welcome to this month’s edition of Despatches.

I buy A LOT online and will be featuring our clients in my blogs moving forwards. Whilst I have been testing all their sites I have learnt a lot and I thought I’d share it with you to make your online business even more successful. 

We speak to Emma Whitaker, Diamond Logistics’ packaging specialist, about the best packaging for high-end homeware, and the government’s plastic tax.

Kate Lester CEO and founder of Diamond Logistics and Hilary Whitney, co-founder of artisan drinks brand Sacred Spirits, have a fireside chat as part of IMHX Connect’s 2021 retail agenda. 

Welcome to this month’s edition of Despatches.

Diamond Logistics – fulfilment partner to eCommerce retailers – has integrated its operation with Linnworks, software designed to manage sales and inventory across selling platforms and automate marketplace listings. Linnworks clients can now take advantage of Diamond’s logistics fulfilment services, including carrier and warehouse management. 

By Kate Lester, CEO and founder of Diamond Logistics. 

The logistics industry functions on lean margins – therefore we have no issue with raising pay in the sector as long as the general public understand the cost of this. Prices for distribution – which frankly have been kept below their real value level for years – will go up. And that is inflationary throughout the supply chain. Therefore the sector may have better wages but this is how that translates to the general public: the prices of goods online and in the shops will increase – and that will impact on inflation, the ONLY lever the Bank of England has to control that is interest rates. Therefore, mortgage costs will go up too. Wages may be higher but throughout the rest of society the general public will feel poorer. Who wants that?

Welcome to this month’s edition of Despatches.

We speak to Emma Whitaker, Diamond Logistics’ packaging specialist, about the best packaging for luxury children’s products, and the government’s plastic tax.