February 08, 2016
Logista, the leading distributor of products and services to proximity retailers in Southern Europe, has renewed for five years its tobacco distribution contract with British American Tobacco (BAT).
Logista will keep on distributing BAT’s products to every point of sale in mainland Spain, Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla. More than 13,000 tobacconists making one of the most extensive and capillary retail networks in Spain.
British American Tobacco is the industry’s fourth company in Spain, with a market share around 11% thanks to well known brands like Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Rothmans.
Logista will continue providing BAT and every tobacconist in Spain with the broadest and most specialized distribution service in the industry.
Services provided by Logista to BAT extend to the whole logistics and distribution value chain, including planning and firm supply, stock and order management, grouping, packaging, distribution, invoicing, collection, as well as customer and after-sales services.
Similarly, tobacconists will keep on accessing BAT’s products and benefitting from the broadest and most complete distribution service.
Logista provides tobacconists with the most advanced information systems, such as its portal for tobacconists or its Points of Sale Terminals (POS Terminals), helping them optimizing their business’ management and profitability, facilitating multichannel ordering and access to a broad range of convenience products and services improving the tobacconist’s profitability.
Logista facilitates tobacconists multiple distribution and delivery formulas, both scheduled and urgent or through its provincial network comprising Logista’s 52 cash & carry stores or service points throughout Spain, where they may acquire the products and access Logista’s offer of convenience products, specifically suited to the point of sale and its end customers.
The renewal and extension of services contracted prove the confidence BAT keeps placing in Logista which, due to its customers’ success, is the leading distribution company to proximity points of sale in Southern Europe.
British American Tobacco is the world’s second largest listed tobacco company, with brands selling in over 200 markets. Its global brands are Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Rothmans. BAT has a significant market share in every continent and is the leader in over 60 countries.
Logista is the leading distributor of tobacco products in Southern Europe, by distributing to near 100,000 points of sale in Spain, France, Italy and Portugal tobacco products and convenience products, transport cards with physical and electronic distribution, electronic top-ups for telephony, smoking and tobacco related items, stationery, confectionery and food, technology appliances and telephony cards and other products, among others.