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As product lifecycles become ever shorter, and as fashion plays an increasingly larger part of today's product ranges, so the need for retailers to minimise the impact on margin of end of line ranges is key:

Discontinued products can have a disproportionate effect on margins in a number of ways, most notably:

• Taking up valuable and costly shelf space which could be put to better use
• Holding back the introduction of new products
• Requiring excessive discounting in order to sell through, impacting margin further

WAM can offer you the chance to cleanse your stores of slow moving inventory releasing space for new ranges, ensuring that your latest and most profitable products are on display and selling as soon as they are available, maintaining your competitiveness, and improving your profitability. WAM can also manage your out-of-warranty retail returns, delivering a rapid recovery at minimum cost. In fact, we can provide:

• Management of all your customer returns, including collection, store compliance reporting, refurbishment and remarketing. We offer a complete end-to-end solution freeing up your precious management and logistics resources to concentrate on selling new ranges.
• Low cost refurbishment and detailed data provision
• Effective cleansing of all customer data held on hard drives, and removal of all store and customer labels on product and packaging
• Discreet and efficient re-marketing of recovered inventory outside of your local market,
• WEEE Processing and certification