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Raincoast Books to Move to a Larger Location in January 2011
by Dan
News + Vancouver / September 07, 2010
Raincoast Books will be moving to a larger warehouse and new head office at 2440 Viking Way in Richmond, B.C. The current facility will close on December 22, 2010 and the new facility will begin shipping books by January 3, 2011. Customer service—including EDI, our B2B site, and our client publisher extranet—will be on stream as quickly as possible after December 22. The new location is 5km from the current warehouse and will hold 40% more books.
“Our volume continues to grow and so a bigger and even more efficient warehouse has become an operational necessity,” said John Sawyer, CEO of Raincoast Books. “But customer service is a key priority for Raincoast so we have planned our expansion in such a way to minimize any disruption to our publishing and retail partners.”
The Raincoast warehouse facility processes over 11 million books a year and is the largest book distribution facility in western Canada. Raincoast has been named Distributor of the Year four times in the last decade by the Canadian Booksellers Association.
Raincoast’s warehouse is currently located at:
9050 Shaughnessy Street
Vancouver V6P 6E5
(tel) 604-323-7100
(fax) 604-323-2600
All orders and shipments should continue to be directed to this location until further notice.
For press enquires please contact:
Jamie Broadhurst
VP Marketing
Raincoast Books
604-323-7124
Email
About Raincoast:
Founded in 1979, Raincoast Book Distribution is made up of two full-service sales and marketing distribution divisions; Raincoast Books in Vancouver and Publishers Group Canada in Toronto, along with Book Express, a wholesale division that drives our customer service standard. Our benchmark is same day shipping for all orders received by 11:00AM. Rain or shine.
