Group company of DATE 1 st April 2014 Vantec Europe Limited Ian Hepplewhite

Introduction 2 Vantec Europe Limited are a provider of: - Bespoke Third Party Logistics - Warehousing and Management - Outsourced Internal Logistics - Ocean / Road / Rail / Air Freight - Customs Clearance - Consultancy and Project Management

Introduction 3 We have been based in the North East of England since 1990 We are part of Vantec Corporation And a subsidiary company of Hitachi Transport System

Corporate Profile 4 Company NameVantec Europe Ltd Head OfficeCherry Blossom Way, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR5 3QZ T: +44(0) / F: +44(0) Managing DirectorMartin Kendall Established1990 Capital Stock£2 Million Employees1200 Consolidated Sales£38m (2013) Vantec Europe Website

History Vantec Europe Limited established to service NMUK Site expanded by 54,000ft 2 for 3 rd NMUK model Work begins with Cummins Engine Company in Darlington Development of JIT services for Mitsui / Komatsu UK 2001 Cummins outsource Internal Logistics 2004 NMUK returnable packaging contract won 2006 Transfer Of Mitsui Operation and Outsourcing of Komatsu Marshalling Activity Expansion into Body shop and Axle Plant 2007 Nissan Parts Export operation (Asia and South America) 2008 Transfer to NMUK’s On Site Warehouse 2009 Tupe Transfer Of KUK Internal Logistics Procurement Of VWT(UK) 2010 Expansion with NMUK to run the KD Operation 2011 HTS takeover of Vantec 2013 Calsonic Kansei Warehousing Operation NMGR Activity Start 2012 Award of NMGR Contract New 400ksqft warehouse build

Logistics Locations 6 10 mile Nissan Komatsu Cummins POT

Freight Forwarding Locations 7 London Heathrow Office & Warehouse Manchester Office Liverpool Office

Supporting Customers - NMUK 8 Relationship: 1990 Activity: Offsite Warehousing, 3 PL Onsite, PCC/CKD, Back loading, Decant, Returnable Pack Control, Line Support, Contingent Support, Sequencing, Customer Specific Secondments Sites: CBW, OSW Turbine, POT 20, POT 5/6. Headcount: 900

Supporting Customers - Cummins 9 Relationship: 1999 Activity: 3 PL Onsite, Decant, Returnable Pack Control, Line Support, Contingent Support, Sequencing, Customer Specific Secondments, Project Management, Consultancy Sites: Engine plant and Component Plant. Over 10,000m 2 Headcount: 65

Supporting Customers - Komatsu 10 Relationship: 2002 Activity: 3 PL Onsite, Decant, Returnable Pack Control, Line Feed Support, Contingent Support, Sequencing, Customer Specific Secondments, Project Management Sites: Komatsu UK, Birtley. Over 8,000m 2 of warehouse Headcount: 55 (TUPE transferred 28 from Komatsu UK)

Supporting Customers – CK Sunderland Relationship:2006 Activity:Forwarding, Custom Clearance, Offsite Warehousing, JIT deliveries Site:JCI2 and JCI3 Warehouses Headcount:54

Turbine Construction Part of the All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2012, Vantec Corporation Hitachi Transport System Group

Overview 13 Largest investment ever made by the company (£2.7 million awarded by the Regional Growth Fund). UK’s first and largest development to begin from the latest round of Enterprise Zones (Area given support such as financial incentives and reduced planning restrictions, to name a few, in order to encourage new business and jobs, and contributing to the growth of local and national economy). One of the fastest build programmes for a project of its size in the UK. Winner of SHD logistics’ best start up facility UK 2013 award

RFQ Process The option for Vantec Europe was to rent multiple warehouses or to build a facility close to our main customer NMUK As this was to create extra employment we put a bid in for a Regional Growth Fund award. The success of this helped our head corporation to decide to invest in building the warehouse. The process required us to employ a company to write the bid. This was long and detailed and required a clear direction of what growth was expected by date due to the project The funding was to be claimed after stages within the build and then once the headcount had been increased. This meant that Vantec had to have the funds available initially to be able to pay the contractors.

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