Clipper Logistics has done a roaring trade in lockdown as bored shoppers have splashed out on goods from clients such as H&M, John Lewis and Marks & Spencer.
Its 52 warehouses and 500 lorries do everything from storing stock and packaging goods to handling returns for some of the biggest brands — ensuring that consumers quickly get their hit of retail therapy while shops are shut.
The buzz of the Covid-19 era — helped by a government contract to distribute PPE and rumours of private equity interest — has sent the shares rocketing after a rocky few years. The price has risen almost 300 per cent since the end of last March, peaking at 644p in January. It has since drifted down and closed on
