On-line sports activities service provider Sportswise (Borders) Ltd is increasing its Peebles headquarters after securing a brand new partnership cope with sportswear retailer, Intersport.
Sportswise (Borders) Ltd, which trades as Rugbystore.co.uk, is constructing a brand new web site after being chosen by Intersport to host its on-line providing and act as its UK distributor.
Sportswise is increasing its headquarters to permit for enlargement of its present artwork design, on-line advertising and images departments in addition to growing its inventory warehouse capability.
The corporate stated it plans to recruit 15 new employees because of the Intersport partnership.
Enlargement work is being funded by a £500,000 facility from Financial institution of Scotland and £eighty two,000 in grant funding from Scottish Enterprise.
Fraser Patterson, managing director of Rugbystore, who additionally sits on the board of Intersport UK, stated: “This can be a very thrilling time for everybody within the enterprise.
“The enlargement of our Peebles base and the superb new amenities housed there’ll each proceed to strengthen our relationship with Intersport and permit us to proceed to construct our status as suppliers of the very best high quality sports activities merchandise within the UK and all over the world.”
Tom Foley, common supervisor at Intersport UK, added: “Intersport UK has discovered the right companion in Sportswise (Borders) Ltd.
“It’s a lengthy serving member of the Intersport group, with robust hyperlinks to the enterprise, mirrored by Fraser Patterson’s seat on Intersport’s board of administrators.
“With Sportwise’s in-home experience and its capability to scale up its operations, we’re very assured that this new partnership will proceed to develop and prosper over the approaching years.”
Sportswise (Borders) Ltd was established in 1974 as a excessive-road retailer and moved to on-line buying and selling in 1997.
The corporate is now one of many world’s largest unbiased on-line merchants of rugby clothes and gear and exports to Australia, america, New Zealand, Latvia, Canada, Europe and Russia.