{"id":10147,"date":"2017-06-22T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T11:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:19:22","slug":"fact-ecommerce-retail-growth-requires-warehouse-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/3pl\/fact-ecommerce-retail-growth-requires-warehouse-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact: eCommerce Retail Growth Requires Warehouse Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Online businesses are booming, while rapid UK eCommerce growth maybe putting stress on retail operation outlets, the opposite can be said for warehouse demand. Thriving eCommerce businesses are shifting their efforts and focus on the warehouse distribution industry.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The quick pace of online retail sales has seen consecutive years of growth not just in the UK, but around the world, with international trade (namely the shipping sector) increasing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The rapid growth and stress on retailers trying to keep costs low are challenging, however, the increase in online transactions makes up for it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The majority of successful eCommerce businesses are choosing to shift their focus and save money, by turning to warehouse services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Warehouses strive to work quickly and efficiently for growing an eCommerce business. Warehouse picking and packing services ensure a customer&#8217;s order is correctly located and packaged with fast delivery directly to their door. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Impressive stats to support eCommerce growth can be seen below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMRG-Report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10148 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMRG-Report.png\" alt=\"IMRG Capgemini report and forecast chart\" width=\"645\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMRG-Report.png 645w, https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMRG-Report-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The IMRG Capgemini report and forecast revealed at the start of the year that e-retail are expected to see a further 14% growth during 2017. Smartphones sales accounted for the majority of UK ecommerce sales last year, which saw a dramatic growth of up to 47%, aiding online shopping. Looking to the future eCommerce sales are set to outweigh traditional channels, increasing the need for warehouse storage solutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Finding a trustworthy efficient space and quality warehousing services, namely a warehouse for rent or perhaps the need to advertise excess warehouse space to let, has been made easy by us. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">If you\u2019re looking for warehousing for your eCommerce business, we specialise in sourcing warehouse space and logistics services, all clearly listed right here on our website via locations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">We provide <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">an<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/fill-space.html\">online advertising directory for warehouse operators<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, warehouse owners and warehouse landlords, to promote their space and services available. We look to match manufacturers and suppliers who wish to rent warehouse space or require warehouse services, with an established network of experienced and professional third party logistics (3pl) and warehouse providers nationwide.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">We are dedicated to offering support and advice, working with many UK\u2019s leading companies, to ensure the right membership package to suit all budgets and requirements, keeping pace with technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please browse our warehouse locations, to<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/find-space.html\">find the right space<\/a><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">for your product,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/contact-us.html\">contact us<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">or request a callback today for further information.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online businesses are booming, while rapid UK eCommerce growth maybe putting stress on retail operation outlets, the opposite can be said for warehouse&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}