Case Study 1 -
The UK warehousing industry loses up to £1.5 billion every year. This is due to racking damage and collapse incidents. For high-volume retailers like B&M, damaged pallet racking uprights are a costly maintenance headache that have become a direct threat to warehouse staff safety, availability of stock, and the ability to operate without disturbance.
How B&M Eliminated Pallet Racking Damage with Goliath™
The Problem
B&M operates over 700 stores and has the distribution infrastructure to match. This company has also invested heavily in forklift driver training and traffic management.
Still, their warehouses kept experiencing recurring damage to their pallet racking uprights from continuous vehicle impacts, making it a safety hazard for warehouse staff, causing operational downtime, and increasing repair costs exponentially.
Every solution available was reactive. Fix it today and impact damages it again tomorrow.
What They Tried
B&M tried many of the most common racking protection products on the market. They tried clip-on, floor-mounted, tie-on, and bolt-on column guards. None of these options successfully prevented severe impact damage.
Many of them simply covered the impact, making inspections less reliable and creating hidden compliance risks.
Floor-mounted guards were also a problem that caused secondary damage when these guards were peeled off by repeated impacts.
Standard racking protection products on the market weren't fit for the purpose.
The Solution: Goliath™
Goliath™, our patented upright repair kit was created to not just fix damaged racking. It prevents future damage from occurring at all.
This permanent racking upright repair is designed to fit all standard pallet racking systems and can be installed quickly by in-house teams. What makes installing Goliath™ more appealing is that there is no loss of pallet locations and no operational downtime.
What Goliath™ provides is not just a repair.
It's a permanent structural reinforcement that breaks
the damage-and-replace cycle for good.
The Results
At B&M, the impact was immediate. Zero upright damage was recorded in every location where Goliath™ was fitted. This was recorded over a 12-month period following installation.
Lower Maintenance Costs
No further spend in areas where Goliath™ was fitted
Cheaper & Faster
Than fully replacing uprights
No Disruption
To stock management or daily operational logistics
Reduced Carbon Footprint
Through fewer steel upright replacements
After the initial installation, B&M installed over 250 Goliath™ kits across one of their distribution centres and committed to using Goliath™ as their standard solution for all future racking repairs.
Every one of our kits comes with a Lifetime Warranty against any manufacturing defects.
A Word from B&M Retailers
"Goliath™ Upright Repair Kit has been a game changer for us. We've had zero impact damage in the locations that Goliath™ has been fitted since installation took place over 12 months ago."
— Kenny Hudson, National Facilities & Maintenance Manager, B&M Retailers
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