HOME Font sizeBigger Reset Smaller You are here: Home Company History About BAP Who Are We Mission Statement Company History Find Us Contact list Services Home Bonded Warehousing Export Transport Port Centric Site Administrator Company History A privately owned and operated business with a 30-year trading history initially specialising in Primary Distribution Company Timeline; 1978-80 •Established a 4 acre site in Colchester, concentrating on the devanning, warehousing and distribution of palletised food goods and forest products 1990 – 95 •Planned and continuous expansion of warehousing in conjunction with Associated British Ports to meet projected growth targets in all business sectors 1995 •The establishment of an import warehousing and distribution service for Somerfield Stores Ltd using BAP’s growing network of import agents and suppliers •Working with J Sainsbury Plc; BAP pioneered the creation of a Primary Consolidation Centre where Multiple suppliers brought together to take advantage of consolidated loads delivered direct to Sainsbury’s RDC’s 7 day’s per week 1998-2002 •BAP establishes the first HM Revenue and Customs bonded warehouse operation at Colchester for the storage of duty deferred Beers, Wines and Spirits, leading to a peak of 1.5 million cases of Champagne held in bond for the millennium campaign 2002 •First opened the port centric operation on port at Felixstowe in 88 shed as a wet bond for Sainsbury’s Wine promotions 2003 •Substantially increased the range of Sainsbury’s products handled through Felixstowe •Expanded with Imported Electrical and Non Foods for Somerfield Stores plc •Handled Maximised weight containers for Majestic Wines 2005 •Established a second port centric import operation at Thamesport facilitating a C&E bonded warehouse with Hutchison Port Holdings on port at Thamesport for Gallo Wines; Managing the scheduling, devanning and onward distribution direct to Customers RDC’s. •Supported Waverley Wines during the Buncfield crisis by providing a major C&E bonded relief operation at Colchester and Felixstowe. 2006 •Further expansion with Sainsbury’s consolidating from 7 sites and committed to use BAP’s port centric operation at Felixstowe; as the primary General Merchandise import supply chain solution. 2007 •Procured a 2 year contract with Sainsbury’s until September 2009 to further enhance the Port Centric Model with Sainsbury’s. and again substantially increased the volumes for the new GM operations 2009 •Sainsbury’s contact extended for a further two years until March 2011, handling all Home & lifestyle ranges to include clothing and on line by end 2009 . Introduced and successfully completed the first origin pick project for Sainsbury’s 2010 •Established our export operation to dismantle JCB’s into 40ft containers for Export, developed the operation to now handle other heavy plant equipment and Agricultural tractors 2012 •Continued expansion has seen export services handling worldwide exports to 46 countries •Sainsbury’s contracts have been extended by a further period to take our relationship to over 20 years. •Increasing volumes of cross docked products ie Bottled Water from Turkey, Stone from India and China and Fashion Products from the Far East. •Largest Origin pick to date handling over 180 containers from 4 worldwide destinations for direct delivery to UK stores. Powered by Joomla!®