Clipper Logistics reports sales jump as it benefits from lockdown online shopping boom

Clipper Logistics has experienced its busiest ever Black Friday and posted record first-half revenues, as it benefited from the lockdown boom in online shopping.

The deliveries and returns business, which works with supermarkets as well as fashion brands such as H&M and Joules, said sales in the six months to October 31 leapt 19.8% to £305.2 million.

The company, which is Leeds United’s training kit sponsor, said trading was boosted from the “continued structural shift to e-commerce that has been accelerated during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic”.

Tony Mannix, chief executive of Clipper Logistics, said “online growth has grown dramatically” this year. 

A number of retailers have been looking for more logistics space and transport to cope with a wave of new e-commerce shoppers won during the pandemic while high street shops had to close for lockdowns.