PIAS COO Nick Hartley has said that despite the loss of 3.2m units in Tuesday morning's blaze at the Sony DADC warehouse in Enfield, the two companies have put together a remarkably quick contingency plan that sees Sony DADC taking warehouse space elsewhere.

It's IT systems, which are largely run from Austria, are also intact and PIAS is moving stock from Brussels and other warehouses abroad to enable picking and packing of available releases from next week.

"We are bringing ...