HarperCollins UK Unveils Glasgow Distribution Hub and Offices

HarperCollins UK has unveiled its new 550,000 square foot distribution center and offices in Glasgow. The publisher’s Glasgow site, in Robroyston, will employ 400 people and handle 110 million books a year, and up to 3 million books a week during its busiest periods. The distribution center will hold more than 56,000 titles in 220,000 locations, with books moved and processed using KNAPP logistics automation. 

The site will also be home to most of the education and reference division of Collins, which publishes dictionaries, atlases, general reference, language learning resources and children’s non-fiction and is home to Leckie, the education publisher for Scotland.

The HarperCollins Archive will also reside within the Robroyston site. The archive includes rare first edition books, original artwork, correspondence and contracts relating to such authors as Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien, Boris Pasternak, AA Milne and Michael Bond. The original Paddington illustrations will also be held here. 

To coincide with the launch, HarperCollins UK has teamed up with Glasgow Life to donate a pack of 50 children’s books to every primary school in the city.