Variation warehousing - Storage Brokers
providing warehouse space to let at competitive rates and with added value services
We find warehouse and office owners with 'unutilised' space and we match them with retailers and suppliers who 'need' storage or working areas fast, flexibly, or even temporarily – and just can't find it.
Variation warehousing, the brainchild of Bill Howie and Graham Williams (who together have nearly 50 years experience in logistics and supply chain management), brings together the space hungry and the space rich through an innovative model based on marketing the space, designing the solution and managing the relationships to keep things simple.
Variation's key strength lies in identifying spare resources, particularly space, within the Logistics Providers which might match their customers' needs – at very competitive rates. Most importantly, as logistics rather than property experts, they know how to make the deal work both for the seller and the buyer.
The Variation Team
Graham Williams is an industry leader in the formulation and delivery of operational supply chain solutions to business, having been in logistics management for over twenty five years. Graham's extensive knowledge and expertise comes from hands-on experience in every aspect of the supply chain. Before Variation, he was a divisional director for a leading logistics service provider and over the course of his career has been involved at the strategic, tactical and operational level with customers in every sector.
Graham is a specialist in operational turnaroundand new business start-up.
Bill Howie has over twenty years experience in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. After several years operational experience, Bill moved into consultancy with Coopers and Lybrand and from there joined GrandMet, ending his time there as VP Worldwide Purchasing and Supply for Burger King Corporation. Next, as Group Logistics Director of the Burton Group, he was responsible for the de-merger of the logistics function and creation of Spectrum, the Debenhams and Arcadia Logistics service provider. Bill later became a founding director of Reality Group, the direct to home delivery business created from the old White Arrow parcel business and the largest of its kind in Europe.
Before Variation, Bill was Managing Director of the Fashion and Lifestyle division of Tibbett & Britten, responsible for all contracts in that sector and the development of Fashion Logistics worldwide.
Bills' particular area of expertise is in supply chain management. He is also a trustee of the transport industry charity 'Transaid'.
Hannah Faulds is responsible for our marketing programmes and administers our Storage brokerage business. She also coordinates enquiries through our call centre at Lightwater. Hannah is a specialist in administration and communications and joined us from Tibbett & Britten where she was the marketing lynchpin of the Fashion and Lifestyle customer relationship department.
Sarah Green is an experienced logistics professional and has spent several years within an International Blue chip logistics environment. With a strong operational bias, has developed, implemented and managed Customer focused initiatives. Formerly, spent 10 years within the specialist technical recruitment field and has undertaken interim contracts for the civil service.