B2B Circular Supply Chain • WEEE Compliance • Commercial Channel Engineering

Turning Problem Stock into Liquid Cash. Compliantly, Quietly, and Direct from Your Loading Bay.

Basic Business Solutions is a commercial recovery and operations consultancy. We help manufacturers, distributors, and enterprise brands move ageing, returned, graded, and scrap electrical stock back into the market or through certified disposal—protecting your brand equity, your balance sheet, and your legal compliance.

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£15m to £6.4m

Annual corporate inventory write-downs cut within 6 months.

£3m+ in 90 Days

Secondary tech sales launched via TikTok Shop with £0 ad spend.

£500k in 10 Weeks

Net cash recovery delivered against board targets.

Zero Double-Handling

Direct point-to-point routing reducing Scope 3 transport carbon.

The Commercial Reality

The Warehouse Bottleneck

The old broken model

Every growing product business eventually hits the same wall. Pallets of customer returns, end-of-line clearance, damaged boxes, and untested raw stock start choking up warehouse space. Your core sales team only wants to focus on prime, full-margin stock, whilst your finance director is forced to watch hundreds of thousands of pounds depreciate into annual balance-sheet write-downs. Most companies make the mistake of either dumping stock to opportunistic jobbers who flood retail marketplaces and ruin their retail pricing, or paying hauliers to ship pallets to third-party processing warehouses—doubling transport costs and inflating Scope 3 carbon emissions before a single penny is recovered.

Point-to-Point Commercial Routing

Our routing model

We strip out the middleman warehouse and the double-handling fees. Basic Business Solutions acts as your external commercial recovery team. We audit your manifest, segment the stock by condition and commercial viability, and route it directly from your distribution centre to vetted trade buyers, approved refurbishers, controlled direct-to-consumer channels, or accredited recycling facilities. You keep control of your brand standards, recover maximum net cash, and receive a watertight legal and environmental audit trail.

Stock Recovery Streams

Structured Recovery Across Every Inventory Condition

We segment your manifest and route every pallet through the highest-margin, lowest-risk commercial channel.

Ageing & Excess Prime Stock

Slow-moving and end-of-line inventory doesn't need to be sold at pence on the pound if routed properly. We ringfence your primary retail channels and move excess prime stock through controlled B2B trade networks, territory-restricted buyers, or dedicated secondary social commerce channels. Your retail pricing stays intact whilst stagnant warehouse capital turns back into working cash.

Governance, Law & UK GDPR

Watertight Brand Protection, UK GDPR & Environmental Compliance

Channel-restricted

Strict Brand Standards & Grey-Market Protection

Dumping clearance stock into the wrong hands destroys years of brand building. Every trade buyer and refurbisher in our routing network is contractually bound by channel-restriction agreements. Where required, we oversee mandatory de-branding, barcode masking, or closed-channel resale so your secondary stock never undercuts your primary retail accounts.

ADISA · ISO 27001 · HMG IS5

UK GDPR & Data-Bearing Device Sanitisation

If you handle consumer technology, IT hardware, smart appliances, or commercial electricals, raw returns and faulty units frequently hold customer Personal Identifiable Information (PII), cached logins, or corporate data. Under UK GDPR, simply factory-resetting a device leaves you exposed to massive regulatory fines and reputational damage. We ensure any data-bearing returns or scrap electronics are routed exclusively through partners certified to ADISA, ISO 27001, and NCSC / HMG Infosec Standard 5 protocols. Whether through certified Blancco software overwriting for refurbished resale or physical shredding for scrap units, you receive serial-numbered Certificates of Data Destruction for every consignment—giving your Data Protection Officer and auditors a complete chain of custody.

Duty of Care verified

Environment Agency & WEEE Duty of Care

Under UK law, your legal Duty of Care for waste and scrap stock does not end when a lorry leaves your yard. We verify every carrier licence, environmental permit, and AATF accreditation in the chain, providing your operations team with a consolidated compliance pack and Scope 3 carbon diversion report for every single load moved.

Digital & Channel Engineering

Commercial Web Architecture, Clearance Portals & AI Search Visibility

Alongside our physical stock recovery work, Basic Business Solutions designs and builds high-performance digital assets for businesses that want measurable commercial return rather than agency fluff. Whether you need a flagship corporate website or a dedicated secondary clearance engine, we engineer digital assets built for speed, search visibility, and revenue conversion.

Sub-Second Commercial Websites

We build bespoke, ultra-fast websites (loading in under one second with zero layout shift and sub-400KB page weights) designed to convert B2B procurement buyers and D2C customers.

Dedicated D2C Clearance & Social Commerce Channels

Need to clear stock direct to consumers without cluttering your flagship site? We build standalone clearance storefronts and launch high-volume TikTok Shop channels—using the exact organic framework that delivered over £3m in consumer tech sales in 90 days with zero ad spend.

AI Search & Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO / AEO)

Modern buyers use AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) to source suppliers. We engineer sites with clean entity schema, llms.txt architecture, and toxic backlink protection so your business is cited first by both search engines and AI crawlers.

Workflow & Manifest Automation

Drawing on experience co-designing enterprise workflow software that saved 10 hours per team member every week, we build custom web portals and internal tools that strip manual admin out of your daily operations.

Track Record

Led by Proven Board-Level Commercial Experience

Basic Business Solutions was founded by C.R.Brereton (MCIM, MIoL), a Chartered Marketer, Member of the Institute of Leadership, and commercial operations specialist with over eight years running e-commerce channels and P&L for a £5m technology engineering and reverse-logistics facility at Exertis UK (part of DCC plc).

Having cut corporate inventory write-downs from £15m to £6.4m within six months, unlocked £500k in net cash recovery in 10 weeks for the CFO, and launched a £3m secondary sales channel from scratch, we don't offer textbook theory. We bring board-level commercial judgement, watertight compliance, and fast digital execution to every client we work with.

Chartered Marketer (MCIM) — Chartered Institute of Marketing
Member of the Institute of Leadership (MIoL)
1st Class Marketing Management - Level 6

Manifest Triage & Enquiries Portal

Tell us what's sitting in your warehouse — or what you need built.

Every submission is reviewed personally. Manifests are treated as commercially confidential.