Entertainment UK (E.UK) has agreed an extension to its successful three year relationship with Morrisons to supply 375 of its stores with home entertainment products and books until February 2011.
As the UK’s leading wholesale distributor of home entertainment, E.UK will continue to supply Morrisons – the country’s fourth largest supermarket chain – with chart CDs, DVDs, games and books. The agreement does not affect Morrisons relationship with Music Box Leisure (MBL), which will continue to supply non-chart music and DVD products to the chain.
E.UK has been working with Morrisons since June 2005. Since then, Morrisons’ turnover in the chart sector of the home entertainment market has increased by more than 150%.
John Vinuesa, Home and Leisure Director at Morrisons comments:
“We continue to be excited by the entertainment and book markets and the increasingly significant role that we play within them. Extending our relationship with E.UK in this way enables us to continue to maximise value for our customers whilst working with our supply partners to drive further efficiencies. Key to our focus will be a greater level of interaction with labels, studios and publishers to ensure that Morrisons' potential is fully recognised, and to harness their support in developing our home entertainment offering further.”
Steve Lewis, Managing Director of E.UK comments:
“In the past twelve months E.UK has enjoyed a number of excellent contract wins, but it’s also key that we maintain our existing customer portfolio. We are therefore delighted with the confidence that Morrisons has demonstrated in E.UK in reaching this extended agreement following a very successful three years together.
Morrisons continues to push forward as a progressive and proactive national retailer with extremely impressive growth in home entertainment, and we are thrilled to be an integral part of its future development.”
ENDS
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Richard Leonard, Brazil PR
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Notes to Editors
About Morrisons
About Morrisons: Freshness, Service and Value
We are the UK’s fourth largest food retailer with 375 stores. Our business is mainly food and grocery – the weekly shop. Uniquely we source and process most of the fresh food that we sell though our own manufacturing facilities, giving us close control over provenance and quality; and we have more people preparing more food in store than any other retailer.
Every week ten million customers pass through our doors and 117,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. With competitive prices and hundreds of special offers, we are proud to save our customers money every day.
About Entertainment UK
Entertainment UK is the UK’s leading wholesale distributor of home entertainment products and books; servicing many well known retailers and online customers. E.UK supplies more than a quarter of the UK's entire entertainment output.
Entertainment UK's clients include Sainsbury’s, ASDA, WHSmith, Tesco, Morrisons, zavvi and Woolworths. The company employs more than 1,000 people and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.5 billion.
For further information please visit
www.entuk.co.uk.
