SANTA FE SPRINGS, California – With many consumers looking to extend the life of their tires instead of buying new ones, Accessories Marketing’s Slime® products, designed to prevent flat tires for the bicycle, automotive, and motorcycle industries, continue to gain popularity through major retailers such as Wal-Mart. Weber Distribution, a leading third party logistics and supply chain management provider for 85 years, announced today that Accessories Marketing has renewed its contract for nationwide warehousing, retail compliance and distribution of their flat tire prevention and repair products.
The Slime® sealant products are manufactured at Accessories Marketing’s headquarters in Grover Beach, California and their tire care and flat tire prevention accessories are purchased from China. The products are sold by many popular retailers, including Wal-Mart, K-mart, The Home Depot, Pep Boys, Ace Hardware, Target, AutoZone, Lowes, True Value, Sports Authority, and Napa Auto Parts, to name a few.
From the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, Weber’s in-house transportation division drays the containers to their 360,000 square foot Norwalk, California-based facility, located just 20 miles from the ports. Once at the facility, Weber’s staff performs a variety of value-added services, including inventory control through regular cycle counts, order processing, label creation, and ensuring retail compliance requirements are followed on each order that is shipped. Weber’s comprehensive Retail Compliance Program manages all of the major retailers’ specific routing, shipping and labeling requirements.
According to Jason F. Hackett, director of logistics for Accessories Marketing (Slime®), most 3PLs have a warehouse management system, but the difference with Weber is their Retail Compliance Program. “We grew from 6 SKUs with Wal-Mart in 2008 to 40 this year and Weber has helped us meet each of our retailers’ shipping needs. Weber’s Retail Compliance Program has been a vital part of our success. No other 3PL, that I am aware of, has created or maintains an in-house and up-to-date database of the retail market like Weber. They actively seek out compliance updates from both small and large retailers and everyone follows one set of instructions — from their floor associate to the shift supervisors to the customer service representative.”
Hackett also noted that Accessories Marketing is an ISO/TS certified company. “We are process driven so if there is a problem, Weber can quickly help us get to the root cause to prevent reoccurrence. The tenure of Weber’s employees is just as important as their knowledge of retail compliance. With the other 3PL we were using a few years ago the turnover was very high and we had to retrain their staff which led to errors. Weber values their employees and many of the people we work with have been there for more than 15 years.”
About Accessories Marketing
Accessories Marketing, Inc. is the leader in flat tire prevention and repair. The Slime® brand sealant is the most widely distributed liquid sealant in the world. The company’s products are distributed in more than 36 countries and sold at more than 50,000 retail distribution points worldwide. Slime is the preferred tire sealant of the American Automobile Association (AAA) keeping members on the go. With distribution facilities in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia, major OEMs in the automotive, motorcycle and bicycle markets have come to rely on Slime sealant to prevent and repair flat tires. Accessories Marketing, Inc. is an ISO 9001:2000 manufacturer. The Slime® formula is manufactured in-house using automated technology and undergoes regular product testing to ensure reliability.
About Weber Distribution
Based in Los Angeles, Weber Distribution has evolved into a nationwide provider of logistics solutions. Weber’s expertise includes non-asset freight management, asset-based LTL and TL services, including temperature-controlled, dedicated and shared warehousing, distribution, cross-docking/pool distribution, transloading, network optimization modeling and analysis, retail compliance, order fulfillment, material handling, supply chain management, real estate development, and personnel staffing.
Weber specializes in providing its clients with unique logistics solutions primarily to these vertical markets:
-Import
-Retail
-Food & Beverage
-Consumer Packaged Goods
-Chemical/Specialty Products
-Paper
Weber serves many well-known and respected companies such as Wal-Mart, Target, Safeway, General Mills, Hershey, Nestlé, Applica Consumer Products, California Innovations, Scholastic Books, and PPG Industries. As a result of its on-going innovation, experience and dedication, Weber has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, including:
-Inbound Logistics’ Top 100 3PLs
-Logistics Management’s Top 50 3PLs
-The Los Angeles Business Journal’s Top 100 Privately-Held Companies
-Food Logistics Magazine’s Top 50 3PLs
-Food Logistics Magazine’s FL100 listing of the top technology solution and service providers to the food industry.
-Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies’ 100 Great Supply Chain Partners
For more information about Weber Distribution and its services, please call 877-624-2700 or visit www.weberdistribution.com.
