Services Offered Distribution Centres

Distribution Centres are the heart of Lekkerland.

Each of them is responsible for a geographical area where it carries out its exclusive distribution activity.
As partners of a renowned group such as Lekkerland, Distribution Centres are entitled to a number of benefits compared to a traditional food distributors.

These are the main ones:

• Domestic contracts:
  Each Distribution Centre has over 100 domestic agreements with the main companies in the field. The Lekkerland group also makes available a domestic platform for imported products; this involves a lowering of costs and the opportunity to access a broader range of products.
• Monthly promotional plans:
  Lekkerland offers to its partners a range of exclusive offers designed for its Customers, which would not otherwise be available. Also frequent are dedicated promotional events, which make it possible to stand out compared to competitors and act as a strong customer loyalty tool. In this very area is placed one Lekkerland’s most successful activities, the “Punti Fiocco" campaign, which provides for a valuable prize catalogue depending on purchases made.
• Campaigns and seasonals:
  In view of the important role that holidays play for the confectionary industry, Lekkerland makes available for the Distribution Centres  a range of booking campaigns as these events draw near, so as to always guarantee a wide and timely selection. Especially during the Christmas and Easter periods, Lekkerland endeavours to supply to its partners products from the best companies at the most competitive prices.

• Know-how Spreading:
  Lekkerland, which has been on the market for over 30 years, has developed a specific know-how, which is very valuable and capable of tackling a variety of problems affecting the sector; for this reason, it is in a position to offer reliable support to the Distribution Centres, which in turn have the ability and tools required to face any kind of situation.
• Branded products:
  Besides distributing articles from the best Italian and foreign manufacturers, Lekkerland supplies to the Distribution Centres a wide selection of its own branded products. The range includes over 100 articles and guarantees to the end consumer a product with an excellent quality/price ratio. Furthermore, partners are in a position to offer to their customers an assortment which is unique of its kind, and which cannot be obtained outside the Lekkerland distribution channel.

• Members’ Area:
  Thanks to the Lekkerland portal, each Distribution Centre has a private area available through which it can manage communication with the head office and with other partners. In addition, the members’ area allows Lekkerland’s partners to always have available updated pricelists, partnership contracts and all the news coming from the head office.  
• Technologies: 
  Distribution Centres have available innovative data processing tools for the management of the whole company: these include the sales and accounting information system, the business intelligence system for the timely analysis of company performance, the picking by voice system for warehouse optimisation and the proprietary software for order taking on the customer’ premises.