Kathy Ireland Home by Martin to Move Warehouse and Corporate Office

June 22, 2008  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Home Office on June 2008 Kathy Ireland Home by Martin (KIHBM) will relocate its San Diego warehouse and corporate office in July 2008 to a site a few miles from its current location. The new, larger campus consists of two buildings that will serve as a distribution center and headquarters. Fifty-one useable loading docks, ample warehouse space, and state-of-the art communications and information systems technology are some of the new facility’s features. The move will begin July 1 and will be complete in the following four to six weeks.

“We outgrew our current facility so we are moving to a custom-made campus and incorporating various new technologies to help us better meet the expectations and needs of our customers,” said Gil Martin, president and owner of KIHBM, a supplier of home office and home entertainment furniture, and the exclusive vendor for those categories for Kathy Ireland Worldwide’s Kathy Ireland Home collections. “Larger warehouse space represents the ability to store more goods from both Mexico and Asia for faster and more reliable deliveries. The use of more advanced material handling equipment will reduce damage and also contribute to shorter delivery lead times. We look forward to the potential growth that this move and new facility will provide.”

The new facility also provides additional office space that will help meet the demands of KIHBM’s customer service, marketing and design departments. A photography studio with an accessories closet will enable in-house photography. And a new Voice-over-Internet protocol system will facilitate communications between company personnel and customers.

To minimize business interruptions, administrative offices will be moved over the course of one weekend, July 25–28. On Friday July 25 the office will close at 2 p.m. Pacific time. The phone system and network (including e-mail and Web site) will be shut down for the move. The administrative office will reopen for business on Monday, July 28 at 8 a.m., while the shipping and customer service departments will be open and available at 7 a.m. the same day.

In an effort to decrease the amount of lost e-mails, faxes and voicemails during the move, KIHBM asks that no one contact the company via e-mail, fax or voice mail during the move.