Costa Logistics expands national footprint
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
MEDIA RELEASE
One of Australia's leading third party logistics providers, Costa
Logistics, will expand its national footprint after leasing a
temperature controlled storage site in suburban Brisbane.
The vacant site at Morningside will add 3,500 square metres of high
quality chilled and temperature controlled warehousing space to the
company's growing national footprint.
Costa Logistics operates:
- 14,000 square metres in Eastern Creek in Sydney
- 15,500 square metres at Derrimut on the outskirts of
Melbourne
- 6,500 square metres at Jandakot in Perth
- 3,500 square metres in Devonport in Tasmania
Costa is also involved with a 44,000 square metre chilled
distribution centre in Parkinson, 24 kilometres from the Brisbane
CBD and a 45,000 square metre facility at Truganina in Melbourne in
a joint venture under the Polar Fresh brand.
Costa Logistics Chief Operating Officer Geoff Norman said the
leasing of the Brisbane space was part of the company's national
growth strategy.
"This is a major move for Costa Logistics and will further cement
our position as a high quality and high tech perishable foods
national warehousing solutions provider,'' he said.
"Expanding into Queensland was a natural progression in the
company's growth plans. We can offer companies in Brisbane a
high-tech, high-quality service and we will be promoting that quite
extensively through an aggressive marketing strategy in
Queensland.''
Costa Logistics takes over the Morningside premises on April 1 and
anticipates that the acquisition will result in the creation of up
to 40 jobs within the company over the next three years. The
additional jobs would include personnel transfer from smaller
companies outsourcing their logistics business to Costa
Logistics.
The company intends to target high throughput, high volume
manufacturers, food service providers and producers of fresh
produce, juices, dairy products, confectionary and other foods.
"We have already secured deals with a wide number of customers and
have also had several expressions of interest from both existing
and potential customers," Mr Norman said.
The Queensland sites will be operated using technology employed at
all Costa Logistics' sites - the Manhattan warehouse management
system software and the SCI client data reporting tool.
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