North East Business News

Issue 64

In a sentence, how would you describe the year 2020? 2020 has been an unpredictable rollercoaster of a year which has significantly touched everyone, I don’t think any industry has escaped some form of impact. How have you adapted to the Coronavirus Crisis? It’s been tough, international freight prices have almost doubled. One of our biggest challenges has been to control inventory and movement of goods internationally. Previous sales trends and forecasts have gone out of the window with extremely volatile random peaks due to excessive online shopping during lockdown. Responding without overstocking and predicting demand has become a daily job in comparison to ‘normal’ times. What are some of your favourite products this year? The team did a fantastic job to launch our biggest ever range of iPhone cases in time for the 12 launch this year. In addition, some of my personal favourite new TORRO products of 2020…