Welcome to those who want to sell their products without getting their hands dirty
- We will handle your customers from the moment they want to place an order through to the despatch of their goods.
- Therefore we save you the cost of a factory, warehouse and large staff.
- Our service is then a direct cost on each order and no longer an overhead rolling in relentlessly each month, regardless of the amount of business you do.
Having taken away all the headaches of a workforce, you can focus entirely on driving your core business forward, wherever your location worldwide.
Your "virtual" workforce are ready to take the strain off your shoulders and handle your customers with care, courtesy and consideration.
About TFL
The business
TFL was started in 1995, and now operates out of 10,000 square feet of factory/warehouse at Brightlingsea near Colchester, Essex, on a spacious industrial estate. The premises are protected by a police-response alarm system.
Susan Smith owns the company and runs the daily operations, with the assistance of her Team.
The Team
We employ a mixture of full-time and part-time staff working on site as well as a number of home workers. If an employee can provide the quality of work we demand, then we will allow them to work the hours they wish. This flexible approach to employment makes for high morale and an unusually committed labour force, which is reflected in the service we can provide for you. This flexibility works both ways, allowing us to expand or contract our capacity according to activity levels.
Each Team member takes responsibility for a number of individual clients. You can speak directly to the team member responsible for your work without the need to go through a switchboard, making the whole business relationship much more personal.
What We Do
- We provide you with a factory, warehouse and workforce.
- We simply charge you for each order we despatch and long-term storage space.
- No overheads for you, just a modest direct cost.
We firmly believe that the business relationship between you and us is the same as a partnership. When we help you to be successful we are also helping ourselves to be successful. It is therefore in the interests of everyone that we work closely together to achieve the best results and this is the point from which we start.
Firstly, we start with a blank sheet – we have no embedded systems to which you must conform. We can start with your current way of working or design a system that suits us all – we’re totally flexible.
We encourage start-ups or very small businesses, as we understand that everyone starts somewhere in a small way – as we did once-upon-a-time!
We’re very happy to show you around and discuss how we might help you, without any obligations.
- We provide you with a factory, warehouse and workforce.
- We simply charge you for each order we despatch and long-term storage space.
- No overheads for you, just a modest direct cost.
We firmly believe that the business relationship between you and us is the same as a partnership. When we help you to be successful we are also helping ourselves to be successful. It is therefore in the interests of everyone that we work closely together to achieve the best results and this is the point from which we start.
Firstly, we start with a blank sheet – we have no embedded systems to which you must conform. We can start with your current way of working or design a system that suits us all – we’re totally flexible.
We encourage start-ups or very small businesses, as we understand that everyone starts somewhere in a small way – as we did once-upon-a-time!
We’re very happy to show you around and discuss how we might help you, without any obligations.
We can:
- Receive your goods straight from your supplier, check them and store them for you.
- We can handle your customers’ orders (telephone, email or post) or download orders directly from your website or various places that you may be selling from. Amazon and Ebay being two of the most popular.
- We can process payments/orders and pick, pack & post your customers’ orders, using the Royal Mail or a variety of couriers.
- We can perform a variety of hand assembly operations should you wish to have your product delivered in component form and built by us.
- We can help you with sourcing the ideal packaging to ensure your products arrive with your customer in perfect condition.
- We can gift wrap your products to your specifications.
We are adept at handling all those awkward products that you love to hate! Some of the many products we have handled include:
- beauty products
- books
- bird boxes & feeders
- DVDs
- designer labelled clothing
- decorative light-switch covers
- Grow Kits for Boots & BHS
- health products
- 40-year-old Wembley football stadium seats
- posters
- prints signed by Mssrs Corbett & Barker
- rose bushes
- sports equipment
- toys & games
- teeth whitening kit
Simple, Light, Clean Hand Assembly Tasks
In essence our main resource is providing lots of pairs of hands to be used for any purpose that is commercially viable. To this end we provide a light, clean, simple assembly service to our clients – be it pre-assembly of products, contract packing work or activities such as assembly of mailshots. For many years we have performed the simple task of inserting a sachet of flower or vegetable seeds into the seed packets seen in garden centres.
We have also handled the assembly of growing kits for sale in Boots & BHS, packing a range of seed packets sold in Tesco's, packaging of lady's hosiery for sale in House of Frazer & T K Maxx, attachment of vouchers to Bachelors' Cup-a-Soup sachets and a host of other operations that cannot economically be achieved by machinery.
If you have a need to assemble a component, create a collection of parts, collate a mailshot and post it, receive the responses to such a mailing, either by post or telephone, speak to us!
