Our History |
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| 1982 | Hermond
Ghazarian and Vahe Oharonian found London Pewter to make collectible
items for the retail market. |
| 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. |
| 1988 | London
Pewter broadens its value-added services by manufacturing displays,
presentation box, and customized packaging. |
| 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. |
| 1998 | Coast
to Coast expands its retail capacity to pre-pack displays, and restock
point-of-purchase displays to thousands of retail stores. |
| 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. |
| 2000 | Coast
to Coast expands its direct-to-consumer shipments, while adding 9
retail chains representing over 5,200 stores, to its distribution
network. |
| 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. |
