Food and retail redistribution company secures frozen foods distribution centre
UK redistributor of surplus products, Company Shop Group, has secured a new redistribution centre handing frozen products near Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
By Liza Helps, Property Editor, Logistics Matters
THE COMPANY Shop Group has secured Paloma Capital’s Unit 6 warehouse at Interchange 38 totalling some 73,007 ft2 after reaching the milestone of redistributing 1 billion surplus items since the business began.
Having doubled the amount of frozen surplus handled over the last five years, this new infrastructure demonstrates Company Shop Group’s ongoing commitment to providing its partners with industry-leading solutions that prevent surplus food, drink and household products becoming waste, aligned with the aims of the UK Food and Drink Pact to help build more circular food systems.
The new redistribution centre, which is located a few miles from its existing Tankersley site, will process and redistribute millions of frozen food items across the UK through its network of Company Shop ‘Surplus Supermarkets’ and its award-winning social enterprise Community Shop. The new facility will open in the Summer, and become fully operational by October.
The site is being fully refitted before bringing the freezers down to temperature and final testing ahead of becoming operational this summer. Company Shop Group’s primary redistribution centre at Tankersley will continue to operate, handling ambient and chilled products.
Joint agents were Knight Frank and Carter Towler.
