The business has moved operations from its Northampton branch to a new facility in Stanton Cross, Wellingborough.

Servicing the local area with a fleet of nine vehicles, Premier’s new premises features a 4,200sqm warehouse that has a capacity of over 4,000 pallets, with dedicated stocks of wide-format rolls, display sheet media, and commodity paper grades.

Premier operations director Chris Stanyon said: “The new Wellingborough site is a significant investment and demonstrates Premier’s commitment to the future.

“Not only does it improve and enhance our ability to service customers both locally and around the UK, it has also created a number of local job opportunities.”

The site will also host a Schelling FK6 plastic and composite panel saw, a Cauhe GH 366 heavy-duty guillotine, and a wall mounted Streibig Saw. These will be used to cut products such as Plexiglas, Foamalux, ACM, and Marlon FSX among others, to customer requirements.

Stanyon added: “The new branch also has state-of-the-art meeting facilities and electric car charging points, which, given the site’s proximity to major road networks, means that it will become a hub for some of Premier’s commercial activity.”

The new site is located close to the M1, A45, and A14, and is part of a £1bn development for Northamptonshire that will see 3,650 new homes and community facilities. It will provide more than 140,000sqm of logistics, leisure, retail, and office space, delivering around 3,000 new jobs.

In 2021 Premier also opened a new branch in Haydock, servicing the North West of the country, and it recently expanded its operations in Glasgow, moving employees there to a larger site in Coatridge.

The business, which has a product range of more than 5,500 items, has made several acquisitions in the past twelve months, including Dublin-based paper merchant GPMI, specialist packaging supplier WBC, and lamination film firm Zulu Packaging.