| 1982 |
Hermond
Ghazarian and Vahe Oharonian found London Pewter to make
collectible items for the retail market.
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| 1986 |
London
Pewter begins manufacturing and fulfilling product for
other companies and sets up a database management system.
London Pewter pioneers packing methods to economically
and safely ship fragile collectible items. First product
is shipped to 150,000 customers.
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| 1988 |
London
Pewter broadens its value-added services by manufacturing
displays, presentation box, and customized packaging.
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| 1994 |
Coast
to Coast Fulfillment is started with four principals,
and specializes in fulfillment of orders generated through
direct-response marketing.
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| 1997 |
Coast
to Coast Fulfillment expands business-to-business distribution
by implementing Electronic Data Interchange (E.D.I.)
protocols for accounting and tracking orders, initially
to drop-ship over 250 SKU’s for a client directly
to over 9,000 stores of a leading retailer.
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| 1998 |
Coast
to Coast expands its retail capacity to pre-pack displays,
and restock point-of-purchase displays to thousands of
retail stores.
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| 1999 |
Coast
to Coast purchases a building in West Greenwich, RI
to handle increased growth, moves its administrative
offices and expands its effective warehouse space by
over 700%.
Coast
to Coast offers warehouse management services to outside
clients and negotiates lease for first third-party warehousing
facility and puts it under Coast to Coast management.
Coast
to Coast expands fulfillment services to include coupons,
samples, and catalogs.
Coast
to Coast, as a SoundScan site, ships over 450,000 units
of a single CD title in 6 months.
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| 2000 |
Coast
to Coast expands its direct-to-consumer shipments, while
adding 9 retail chains representing over 5,200 stores,
to its distribution network.
Coast to Coast becomes the state's largest United States
Postal Service customer.
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| 2002 |
Coast
to Coast processes more than 200,000 check orders for
a single direct-response client.
Coast
to Coast begins North American business to business
distribution for several European clients.
|
| 2003 |
Coast
to Coast Fulfillment boosts its foreign clients' return
of inventment (ROI) by expanding its "virtual backroom"
services. By adding thirid-party billing, bookkeeping
and customer service operations -- in addition to the
ongoing shipping and distribution operations -- Coast
to Coast Fulfillment makes it possible for foreign manaufacturers
and importers to support their US sales forces without
having employees or an office in the USA.
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| 2004 |
Coast
to Coast processes 25,000 Web orders for one client in
a single one day, and in the same week, processes orders
for 90,000 line items in one day.
Web-based transactions for many products out-number orders
through toll-free call centers.
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