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L-Shop-Team and WIC join forces

Michèle Bassez

With effect from 1 May 2015, the Belgian family firm WIC NV will become a wholly owned member of the Dortmund-based L-Shop-Team Group.

With the new WIC NV subsidiary in Deinze, near Ghent, L-Shop-Team is further expanding its presence on the European market and setting the course for joint future growth.

Promotional textiles

“We are delighted to welcome Michèle Bassez and her team into the L-Shop family,” say Stefan Schenk and Jörg Bittorf, managing directors of L-Shop-Team GmbH in Dortmund. “We are firmly convinced that in Michèle Bassez, we have found an outstanding expert with many years’ experience in the sale of promotional textiles. The Belgian textile wholesaler WIC fits perfectly into our Group. Amalgamating our business activities will bring benefits for both sides.”

Textile brands

For WIC’s customers, a smooth transition is ensured ‒and they can benefit in many areas. In addition to the products offered by WIC, they now have access to the complete L-Shop-Team product range, i.e. to more than 90 leading worldwide textile brands. They will also continue to be looked after by the representatives they are familiar with. The high standard of service with extremely short delivery times is already ensured through the geographical proximity to Germany and the expansion of the depot in Dortmund, completed in 2015, to almost 40,000 square metres in total, with an average 10 million articles in stock at any one time.

The L-Shop-Team is growing. Already at the beginning of this year, a wholly owned subsidiary was founded in Switzerland. This means that today, the company has a presence with its own subsidiaries in Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, and now also Belgium. Long-standing partnerships also exist with RDPP in the Netherlands and New Jersey in Denmark.