Sony/PIAS Warehouse Burns Down in London Riots
No One Injured in the Blaze
Aug 09, 2011
Since early this weekend, London has been struggling with some major rioting. (To our friends in the area: stay safe, okay?) Today, we got word that the PIAS UK warehouse—that serves as a distribution hub for XL/Beggars, Warp, Rough Trade, Domino, 4AD, Sub Pop, Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, Drag City, Thrill Jockey, FatCat, Kompakt, Mute, Ninja Tune, Vice, and Soul Jazz—was burnt down. Thankfully no one was injured, but the destruction of inventory comes as a major blow for the independent labels.
Our thoughts are with everyone in London right now! Check out the official statement from PIAS, along with video from the blaze, below.
Latest update - Sony DADC have actioned their Business Continuity Plan and are back up and running from a new control room in Enfield. PIAS continue to work with them to minimise the impact on the business, a number one priority for all labels and clients. SonyDADC have identified a temporary distribution partner and it is envisaged that they will be in a position to pick, pack and ship orders in the course of next week.
This follows an earlier statement regarding a fire last night at the SonyDADC warehouse, which services the physical distribution for PIAS in the UK and Ireland. PIAS’s UK offices in London and all other areas of our business are unaffected. More information will be communicated shortly to all our labels and partners
Further details will follow tomorrow morning.
We wish to thank everyone for the overwhelming messages of support.
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August 12th 2011
1:18pm
Well done Sony for having demonstrated a level of prepardness and not have fallen into the complacency trap.
To be up and running again so quickly is testament to the need for good planning and adopting robust business continuity and incident response plans.