MILA AND SAFESTYLE RENEW SUPPLY AGREEMENT
17th February 2015

Mila and Safestyle UK have renewed their long standing supply agreement for a further two years. Mila’s Managing Director Richard Gyde and Safestyle’s Operations Director Mark Scaife signed a deal recently which will extend the partnership between the two businesses to more than two decades.

Richard Gyde said: “We have a really strong relationship with Safestyle, which is one of the UK’s largest retail fabricators producing more than 6000 items per week, but we are never complacent about our position. We work just as hard as we did 20 years ago to win and retain their business, and the process of renewing the contract gets more rigorous every time.

“Understandably, Safestyle is an incredibly demanding customer but we relish the challenges they set us to go on delivering incremental improvements at every stage of our supply contract.

“We already achieve On Time In Full performance figures for Safestyle in excess of 99% but as we move forward with the new agreement, we have undertaken to deliver even more new service initiatives which will enable us to reach even higher peaks in supply chain performance.

“For example, we are identifying a third source for Safestyle products, on top of our standard dual sourcing policy, and we have committed ourselves to complying with the Ethical Trading Initiative base code which is now a requirement for Safestyle’s suppliers, as well as reducing the tonnage of cardboard in our packaging by 22% over the course of the next two years.”

Mila remains Safestyle UK’s preferred hardware supplier and continues to provide the vast majority of the fabricator’s hardware requirements. This includes ProSecure handles and suited ProStyle letterboxes for Safestyle’s doors and ProLinea espag and TBT handles for its windows. Mila also supplies a range of third party products which Safestyle chooses to buy from Mila because of the guarantees it offers on delivery and availability.

As part of the new supply agreement, Safestyle will have a twelve month exclusivity in the retail market on one of Mila’s key 2015 product launches. Further details will be announced when the product becomes available in late Spring.

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