This year as a company we have invested heavily in increasing our stock levels across our entire product range, especially our Premium European Porcelain paving. This has proven to be extremely popular among our regular trade customers and the retail purchaser alike. We put this down to the porcelain being such superior quality and due to our buying power we are able to market them at the same price or even lower than other suppliers offer Indian Porcelain Paving products, that we sell as part of our cheaper contract range.
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Our Most Popular European Kandla Sandstone Porcelain Paving that is genuinely and exclusively designed and manufactured for us by our Italian partners.
Over the coming months leading up to Christmas we are going to take delivery of over 30,000 sqm of European Porcelain products across our yards, ready to meet the start of our customers needs next year, meaning we will never run out of stock of any of the products in our hugely popular porcelain ranges.
This will also mean we have our stock at todays prices, stopping us being affected by the inevitable price rises other suppliers are likely to be facing in the coming months. Inflation is being predicted to reach 13% by the end of this year and gas prices have already doubled and are looking to rise even higher. Due to us moving early with our stock purchasing plans, this should ensure we can continue to offer the same great prices for our Premium European Porcelain Paving through to the end of this year and well into 2023.
We have also started to lease a yard in Europe where we will hold as much stock of Porcelain Paving, German and Portuguese limestones and granite setts as possible, this will mean we are no longer reliant on the manufacturer to supply to us on time. We can meet all our own needs directly from our own stock, with only a few days delivery time from Europe to the UK.
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New stock holding yard in Europe, ready and filling up nicely.
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Some of the Porcelain and Sandstone products we hold in our Poole Yard.
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A very small part of the stock holding at our Portsmouth Yard, this yard alone holds over 50,000 sqm of paving at any one time.