Farfetch, a worldwide marketplace for luxury fashion items and accessories, will have a new facility in Venray (Limburg region, the Netherlands). The destination will be a distribution center owned by DHG, which is rented by Clipper Logistics, a leading provider of value-added logistics solutions. Clipper logistics anticipates it will employ 600 personnel at the site. 

Recently, Clipper Logistics and Farfetch have signed a 5 year agreement, with operations commencing in April 2021. Clipper Logistics processes goods in Venray after a transaction on Farfetch’s internet platform. The British company also arranges the storage of goods, processing of orders, makes repair arrangements and organizes transport throughout Europe. The facility will have a capacity of more than 2 million pieces of high-end clothing. 

The fashion trade of the internet is booming business. Internet retailers like Farfetch, Amazon and Zalando gain maximum profit from fashion sales in the current pandemic. They are gaining market share from an intense war between online and offline companies that have no choice but to close due to influence from pandemic measures.  With the new facility and contract, Clipper Logistics trading activities expand by nearly 30% in mainland Europe. 

The British-Portuguese company Farfetch was founded in 2007 by Portuguese entrepreneur José Neves as a tech company. Nowadays, Farfetch is a fashion marketplace where consumers can access more than 1.300 boutiques and brands worldwide. Consumers also have the ability to sell their own design products for credit, through the trade platform of Farfetch Second Life.
Because Farfetch has a big supply on hand, they have a strong competitive place on the market . The trade that commences from Second Life, is outsourced to partners like Clipper Logistics.
In 2018, Farfetch entered the stock market in New York, and has currently a stock value of more than 21,5 million dollar.

Fellow stock market player Clipper Logistics from Leeds, is leading in logistic solutions. Clipper Logistics owns a network of 43 distribution centers, a total of eight distribution centers in Germany and Poland, 11,8 million square meters of storage room, 8000 employees and more than 470 vehicles. Clipper Logistics rents, on the smart log-location in Venray (Limburg region) , distribution center number 2 (16.000 m2). This is part of a total of 3 warehouses realized by real estate investor/ developer DHG,  which is located on business park Smakterheide, where the company Inalfa was previously facilitated.