DCS Group partners with XPO Logistics for Sustainable Solutions
DCS Group partners with XPO Logistics to enhance FMCG logistics using advanced IT, AI route planning, and sustainable fuel. The collaboration aims to improve efficiency and customer experience for major household brands.
How DCS Launched a Brand New Haircare Range
DCS are super proud to share the success story of our new Enliven Fruits Haircare range! This is the first time we have designed and developed a unique fruity range of hair products targeting specific hair types. A set of 3 mouth-watering variants in a complete regime that meets your specific hair needs, trialled, and tested on 150 consumers!
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How We Know Our Training is Working at DCS
As a business with a heart in distribution and manufacturing, we have a very strong culture of compliance training. It’s never been enough for us to simply meet the basic audit standards for our sector. For many years we have committed to additional accreditations because we believe they’re important – for the safety of our own people and supply partners and for the quality of service we want to deliver.
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The Power of Collaborative Partnerships: How We Create Opportunities and Drive Growth for Our Suppliers and Customers
Whitworths and DCS worked together to identify a strong customer partner to collaborate on a significant distribution and growth opportunity. Both Whitworths and DCS have huge confidence in Whitworths’ healthy snacking solution and the size of the potential opportunity. In-Home Bargains, we found a progressive and entrepreneurial partner. With a shared goal, we then started the discussion, collaborating on creating the right consumer proposition that worked for Whitworths, Home Bargains and DCS. Once on the shelf, we were sure the product would deliver and drive trial and repeat purchases.
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Laundry Add-Ons - The Sure Way to Grow Your Sales
The laundry add-ons category is worth more than £100m in the UK market. Whilst it’s dwarfed by laundry detergents (£900m) and fabric conditioners (£430m), it’s still important to get right. There are many shoppers who are loyal to specific products, and you can encourage customers to grow their baskets by shopping across the full range.
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DCS Expands!
DCS continues to expand, adding an additional warehouse to our Banbury Headquarters and additional business along with it!
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Productive vs Busy: How DCS Are Working on an Age-Old Challenge
In logistics, we can calculate how long it will take to transport products from A to B and can build in robust contingency time based on reliable information. Yet, it seems to be so much more difficult to accurately plan time within other business functions. This is something we are looking at more closely in DCS - how can we make it easier for people to be productive?
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Technical Transfer – Starting on the Right Foot
Moving a product between suppliers is not always an easy process. At DCS we have transitioned many complex products to our factory. Here is a great example of how we can work in a fast and flexible manner to get your product into production and onto shelves so you can focus on growing your brand!
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Maximising Personal Care Sales in Convenience
8 in 10 Convenience retail consumers shop for snacks & drinks but only 1 in 10 shop for deodorants, haircare or skincare. Converting just 5% more shoppers into beauty and personal care (BPC) categories could be a £1.8m RSV opportunity.
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