Travis Perkins plc, one of the leading suppliers to the UK construction industry, celebrated the launch of its new Range Centres with a visit from George Osborne. The Group is opening four new sites, known as Range Centres, across the country, allowing all branches to offer next day delivery on any heavy side product.

Each new distribution centre is creating a substantial number of new jobs for its local community - with recruitment already under way for over 500 jobs - so the new Tilbury Range Centre was the ideal venue for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to discuss the 2015 Budget. These opportunities are part of the 4,000 new jobs Travis Perkins plc has announced it will be creating over the next four years.

Cardiff's 7,820 square metre (81,473 square feet) Range Centre opened in December 2014, joining the existing centre at Warrington, which stocks 2950 SKUs and has 140 members of staff on site. Two more Range Centres are set to follow, with Tilbury opening July 2015 and Coventry June 2016. Home to an extensive range of heavy side products, each Range Centre will supply hundreds of Travis Perkins plc branches, ensuring that every branch has immediate access to a much wider range of stock.

Thanks to these new centres, customers will benefit from increased heavy-side stock levels in all branches, along with the option of next day delivery on any unavailable products. The Range Centres deliver all orders overnight, so customers don't have to worry about competing with delivery lorries for parking spaces.

Joel Brown, Group Supply Chain Development Manager at Travis Perkins plc, comments: "It was fantastic to receive a visit from George Osborne and celebrate all the job opportunities we are creating. At Travis Perkins plc we're always striving to give our customers the best experience possible and we're delighted to be able to offer next day delivery on all products, thanks to the new Range Centres. It's great timing as our latest Travis Perkins catalogue has just launched, so our customers can now get all the latest products, no later than the day after they order them."

In addition to the Range Centres, Travis Perkins plc has also opened a new hub for light side materials - the Omega Centre in Warrington will serve over 450 branches and stock 19,000 SKUs. Dedicated to a selection of Travis Perkins plc businesses - CPS, Travis Perkins, PTS, Keyline, CCF and Benchmarx, the Group will be investing £600 million a year in this hub to provide customers with increased light-side stock levels and faster delivery.

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About the Travis Perkins Group
Travis Perkins plc is the UK's leading supplier of materials to the builders' merchant, home improvement and construction market. The Group operates 19 businesses from 1,987 sites across the UK, and employs over 26,000 people. With a proud heritage that can be traced back over 200 years, our employees are continuing that tradition by helping to build Britain.

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