Whistl acquisition of Parcelhub and Mail Workshop

Whistl is the UK's largest Downstream Access Business Mail provider and is actively pursuing growth strategies in the doordrop media, parcels, fulfilment and international markets across the UK.

Nick Wells, CEO Whistl UK Ltd spoke to the LSA,

We are delighted to welcome Parcelhub and Mail Workshop into the Whistl family. It is a business that shares the same values as Whistl – providing excellent customer services cost effectively and also identified a gap in the market providing solutions for clients that could not access the services and discounts available to large volume mailers.

Whistl, the leading delivery management company with activities in Business Mail, Doordrop Media, Fulfilment and Parcels has announced the acquisition of privately held Nottingham-based Parcelhub and its sister company Mail Workshop. Mail Workshop was launched in 2003 and provides eCommerce shipping and fulfilment, printed matter fulfilment, picking and packing. Parcelhub followed in 2010 and provides a multi-carrier shipping and ecommerce customer service solution for small to medium sized e-tailers who cannot access large scale discounts available to large volume mailers.

Distributing over 6 million parcels annually across the UK on behalf of hundreds of ecommerce, eBay and Amazon retailers, the company employs 90 people with a headquarters in Nottingham and was founded by Mark Rosenberg, Managing Director and Steve Riley. This is the second acquisition by Whistl following a management buyout in 2015. It acquired Prism DM in July 2017 as part of its growth strategy into the fulfilment market.

Nick Wells, continues,

Working together we will be able to optimise our current parcels services to customers and build upon our expertise and presence in the fulfilment market.

Following the purchase of the business, Mark Rosenberg will remain as Managing Director and continue to operate the business from Nottingham under the Parcehub and Mail Workshop brands.

Mark Rosenberg,

We have got to a stage in the development of the company that we need the extra firepower from Whistl to enable us to maximise our potential and to create opportunities for further growth. We have a similar entrepreneurial outlook to business, providing services that make customer’s businesses run better operationally and cost efficiently.