Single price discount retailer,
Poundland relies on Linde
Material Handling to fulfil a
50% increase in specialist forklift
trucks on short term rental (STR) to
help meet seasonal peaks in demand.

In the months before Christmas
demand increases significantly. All
products are handled through two
warehouses, totalling 517,050m2.

“We have worked with Poundland
since it first opened,” says Kevin
Gillespie, corporate account manager
of Linde Creighton. “We supply the
company with more than 120 trucks
in ‘normal’ conditions and an
additional 60 or so trucks to cope
with its peak demand for Christmas
orders.”
The Poundland warehouse team
uses about 45 low-level order pickers
and 15 x 12m reach trucks most of
the year. Linde also organises and
supplies the additional batteries and
battery charging stations that
are needed for the peak period.