What is Bonded Warehousing and How Can it Help Your Business?

What is Bonded Warehousing? As the Brexit debate has highlighted, goods being imported into a country are frequently subject to taxes, often called ‘Tariffs’ or ‘Duty’. In normal practise, these taxes are immediately payable by the importer even if the goods have not...

What is a 3PL?

If you are considering outsourcing your businesses logistics requirements you have probably been searching online, contacting companies for more information and are likely to have come across the term 3PL and even 4PL in your research. Do you know what they mean? When...

Creating bespoke excise bonded warehousing and logistics

At Johnston Logistics UK we are well known for our expertise in the handling, storage and distribution of HM Revenue & Customs bonded wines, beers and spirits. With our expertise we allow customers to focus on their core business. In this blog we take a look at...

How can an excise bonded warehouse help your drinks business?

Bonded warehouses have been around for hundreds of years. They provide a secured storage facility for products imported into the UK from around the world. Essentially using an excise bonded warehouse allows businesses importing alcohol into the UK to defer the payment...

Subscription boxes – should you outsource your fulfilment?

Just a few years ago saying you’d bought someone a subscription as a present meant nothing more exciting than a magazine. Today the subscription gift market has expanded beyond all recognition. If the UK follows the US market, then practically anything that can be...

The British Retail Consortium updates its distribution standard

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has published the third issue of its internationally recognised BRC Global Standard for Storage and Distribution. The audits against Issue 3 which was announced on 1 August 2016 will start on 1 February 2017. The Standard is...