RESHORING CASE

Peta UK

Company details
Code: 
Peta
Company name: 
Peta UK
Company country: 
United Kingdom
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C25 - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
Sub-sectors: 
C25.7 - Manufacture of cutlery, tools and general hardware
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
22/07/2016
Starting implementation date: 
January, 2016
End of Implementation : 
December, 2016
Reshored to: 
United Kingdom
Location code: 
UK
Reshored business function: 
Production
Reasons for reshoring: 
"Made in" effect
Delivery time
Loyalty to the home country
Poor quality of offshored production
Proximity to customers
Proximity to suppliers
Case narrative: 

Peta UK is a 40 years old family business, which produces knifes, scissors, and garden tools. The company joined the project "Made in Britain" in order to highlight the quality of its production. According to Genny Crockett, Managing Director of PETA UK, the backshoring from China allows an increased control over production. Following the reshoring, the lead time has been dramatically reduced and so has the size of batches. 
 

PETA works closely with Skar Precision Mouldings Ltd in Hadleigh, Suffolk. According to Brian McLellan, Technical Sales Director of Skar, Skar has been working with PETA for many years  and has helped them to move production of some parts to the UK.  Skar has supported several more companies to backshore part of their production from China back to the UK. According to McLellan, the backshoring had a commercial sense for customers.
 

Sources: 

British Plastics, 22/06/2016

BQLive, 27/06/2016

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
China
Offshored business function: 
Production