John Ritchie Ltd – Trade Announcement

JOHN RITCHIE LIMITED – TRADE ANNOUNCEMENT

The past 12 months have been a period of significant growth for the Kilmarnock based company, John Ritchie Limited. As part of its ongoing business development, it acquired Penfold Card & Gift in Bicester, Eikon Bible Art and most recently the STL Distribution business in Carlisle at the start of 2010.

The priority over the first 6 months of this year was to stabilise the distribution business and carry out a strategic review of the new expanded organisation to determine its future direction.

After consultation with a small number of staff in Kilmarnock, John Ritchie Ltd is now proposing to further enhance its service to the UK Christian retail trade by integrating all Ritchie trade distribution operations into the Carlisle warehouse. This re-organisation will enable Ritchie to provide a consolidated ordering facility and more efficient supply of products to its trade customers. The existing Kilmarnock site will focus on developing its Publishing and Retailing functions.

Ken Munro, CEO of John Ritchie Ltd said: “I believe this re-organisation of activities is essential in order to improve efficiency and further enhance the excellent support for all our customers. John Ritchie Publishing enjoys an important heritage within Scotland and Northern Ireland and it is our intention to further support this core market through our retailing and publishing activities. STL Distribution offers unparalleled service levels to the UK Christian book trade. By bringing the RItchie's stock range into Carlisle we will continue to strengthen and broaden the product range we bring to market.”

The majority of stock will be transferred to Carlisle by mid-October, at which point all order enquiries should be directed to STL Distribution. Further details will follow shortly for Ritchie trade accounts that do not have accounts with STL Distribution.

Increased discounts on ASM Promotions!

Increased discounts on ASM Promotions
We’re pleased to tell you we have increased the discounts on our ASM promotions. From today all U.S. ASM promotions are at 45% discount and offers are available through all channels – Web, Phone, Fax, SyneRgi and ASM – whilst stocks last. Click to view our current promotions.
This is the perfect opportunity to stock up for Christmas. If you wish to place a large order speak to your ASM to find out about further discounts on higher volume orders.

Retail Partner Christmas Promotion 2010

The Christmas Promotion offers are now available for Retail Partners to order. Featuring books for advent, bestsellers from top authors, children’s Christmas books, The Chronicles of Narnia, devotionals and much more, the Christmas promotion is packed with great gift ideas for your customers. If you have not yet become a Retail Partner and would like to find out how you can join the scheme, please speak to your Area Sales Manager or call Lydia Wood on 01228 611752 to arrange for someone to visit.

All Destiny Image US product can now be ordered at 45% including bestselling titles such as:
9780768427127 Release The Power Of Jesus PB
9780768428285 Secrets To Imitating God PB
9780768427257 A Life Of Miracles PB
9780768431636 Adventures In The Prophetic PB

Available through all channels – Web, Phone, Fax, SyneRgi and ASM – whilst stocks last.

The 7th edition of Operation World launches in the US on Friday. We will be receiving stock of the paperback and hardback during the week commencing 25th October. Unfortunately publication of the paperback with CD-ROM (9781850788751) has been delayed and we don’t yet have a date for when we will be receiving these; we will communicate a delivery date as soon as we are able to.

Those of you who have pre-ordered the paperback with CD-ROM (9781850788751) may wish to order a quantity of paperbacks in the mean time. Please speak to Customer Services to review your order.

Stock Update

This week we’ve had deliveries from a number of suppliers including
Norwich B&M, Destiny Image US, CWR, Strang, Wildgoose, Kregel, Banner of Truth, Nelson, Elevation, Alban, Kingsway, Collins, CFP and Hodder & Stoughton.
The following key titles are now on free stock and available to order:
ELE1505D Everything CD
ELE1514D God’s Love Is Unstoppable CD
9781565638181 Cruden’s Complete Concordance HB
CSCD512 Cambridge Singer’s Christmas Album CD
9780232518900 New Jerusalem Bible Pocket HB
0967188911 EDWJ Nov/Dec 2010

NCV Youth Bible and Golden Ticket Winners

NCV Youth Bible – Back in stock!

After a long wait we’re pleased to tell you we now have the Thomas Nelson NCV Youth Bibles back in stock and available for you to order.
9780718027735 NCV Youth Bible Purple Cover HB £14.99

9780718027728 NCV Youth Bible Sunburst HB £14.99

Golden Ticket Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners of September’s Gold, Silver and Bronze tickets.

Gold Ticket – Christian Book Centre Preston
Silver Ticket – Nathan’s Leather Goods
Bronze Ticket – Soft Approach

Beaming smiles from the staff at Preston's Christian Book Centre with their order of bibles bought with the Golden Ticket prize

"We were overwhelmed with the generous gift that the Gold Envelope represented for us as a business, we offer our sincere thanks and appreciation to STL Distribution for this gift.
"It is great that we still sell many Bibles from both our shops, we decided to use the gift to buy in Bibles, so the gift of the Gold Award has allowed us to stock up with a broader range of Bibles that can be offered to our customer."

Nigel – Christian Book Centre, Preston

New Agreements Signed
STL Distribution has signed new agreements with Evangelical Press and Eagle Books. STL Distribution will now be wholesaling the full range of Evangelical Press published and imported products from November 2010 and will also now be acting as the exclusive sales representative and distributor of Eagle Publishing product.

High Discount Promotions Revised

Just to let you know we’ve made some revisions to our 50% discount and 75% discount promotions. To download an updated printable orderforms click here for 50% discount and here for 75% discount.
With great offers on a number of bestselling titles including:
9781846251146 365 Days With Calvin
9780736920780 Big Sky Dreams Series: Sabrina Volume 2
9780281061754 Colossians and Philemon Study Guide
5027957001091 Friends Rediscovered DVD
9781589975484 Gone In A Heartbeat
9780007258352 Prince Caspian Movie Storybook
9780849918919 The Mermaid In The Basement
9781595546883 A Time To Dance
Available while stocks last. Please note that previous versions of the orderform are no longer valid.

Stock Update

This week we’ve had deliveries from a number of suppliers including Destiny Image US, Moody, Thomas Nelson, Kingsway, NavPress, Kevin Mayhew, Zondervan, Baker, SPCK, Tyndale, H&S, Lion Hudson, Harper Collins, Kregel, Integrity and Elevation. The following key titles are now on free stock and available to order:

9780840700537 NKJV Gift Award Red
5099968779726 Hello Hurricane Deluxe
9781414336480 Bringing Up Girls
9780340979334 The Reason For God
9781590525784 Living The Cross-Centred Life HB

November-December Bulletin plus ASM Promotions

November/December Bulletin

The November/December issue of the Bulletin has now been printed and you should have your copy in the next week. Look out for it inside your orders. This edition features our first ‘Info Bulletin’ with four pages of news and updates from STL Distribution.

Key products featured this month include Operation World which launches on 15th October and will be available to the UK trade exclusively through STL Distribution.

To mark the release of the latest Narnia film ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’, there are a number of Narnia products on pages 17, 53 and 58.



Also included with this issue of the Bulletin is the brand new STL Bible Directory. The Bible is at the heart of STL Distribution’s ministry and we hope that this directory will be an invaluable resource to aid you in serving your customers.

Golden Ticket Giveaway


The last of this month’s tickets will be going out in an order this week. Next week we’ll let you know who September’s winners were!

Remember if you receive a Gold, Silver or Bronze ticket in your order please contact STL Distribution Customer Services on 0845 705 6568 and ask to speak to Louise Dawson or Janette Ivison.

To claim your free order, you must quote the unique promotion code found on the ticket.

ASM Promotions

The Area Sales Manager promotions for this sales cycle are now up on the website, with over 300 titles included. Speak to you ASM for additional discounts on larger orders.

Don’t forget to check out the High Discount Promotions online now! With a huge selection of titles available at either 50% or 75% discount including:


9781853454431 A Life To Die For

9781846250941 Beyond Bars

9781844741564 Dead or Alive?

9781414333106 Big Thoughts For Little People

9781414334875 Evil’s Edge

9780849920936 Just Give Me Jesus

Stock Update

This week we’ve had deliveries from a number of suppliers including Nelson, Baker, Zondervan, Kregel, Tyndale, Moody, Hodder, Group, Alban, Continuum, Penguin, CWR, Harvest House Publishing, Kevin Mayhew, Harper Collins and Day One.

The following key titles are now on free stock and available to order:

9780840726858 KJV Gift Award Leatherflex

9781414309477 NLT Gift Award

9780340954225 Battlefield of the Mind

9780446569958 Eat the Cookie, Buy the Shoes

9780310327363 Plain and Simple

9780310951858 Amplified Bible Mass Market

9780007349845 Children Of God Storybook Bible

High Discounts now available through all channels

High Discount Promotions

We are pleased to inform you that the high 50% and 75% discount promotions are now available through all channels – phone/fax, website, SyneRgi and through your Area Sales Manager.



Huge discounts on key titles including:

9781846251146 365 Days With Calvin
9780736916189 Cassidy

9781414315799 Choosing Your Faith

9780281060825 Darwin and God

9780310291541 Apprentice PB
9781589975484 Gone In A Heartbeat

9780849913822 Great Lives: David



For full details of both these promotions, click the banners or speak to your Area Sales Manager. If you simply want to download the orderforms as a spreadsheet, then click these links:

Download 50% orderform as a spreadsheet

Download 75% orderform as a spreadsheet



Offers available while stocks last.