Northampton, 3 March, 2014
The UK subsidiary of one of Europe’s leading global logistics players, Dachser, has taken possession of its new purpose built facility at Brackmills, Northampton. On 24th February the keys were handed over to Dachser by the developer, Roxhill Investments, bringing the base-build phase of the development to completion.
Dachser purchased the 16.38 acre site last year, and proceeded with a turnkey project to develop a freehold facility comprising 64,000 sq ft cross-dock as well as a 114,000 sq ft contract logistics warehouse and 21,000 sq ft of office accommodation over two storeys. Work on the remaining fit-out items will now continue, and commencement of operations is scheduled to begin during the last week in March.
The facility is located at a new address named after the founder of the company, Thomas Dachser.
“We are very pleased that we will soon be moving into a brand new facility which will give us scope to continue to expand our business,” said Nick Lowe, Dachser’s UK Managing Director. “It represents a multi-million pound investment and endorses our commitment to Northampton as a prime location for a major European logistics hub centre.”
John Goodman, Dachser UK’s General Manager, Midlands and North, and responsible for the operations at the Northampton branch office, added, “We have seen significant increases in our European export and import volumes over the past few years, and our new facility is generating great interest from customers and our European network colleagues alike. We are especially looking forward to showcasing our new contract logistics warehouse which will accommodate 20,000 pallet spaces, within which we will be offering flexible solutions to customers for all their outsources supply chain needs.”
Dachser UK also has branches in Dartford and Rochdale, both of which are seeing a steady growth in business volumes too as the Company continues to increase its market share. Their Reading sales office opened in January 2013 and serves the M4 corridor region, and more branches in other areas of the UK are planned for the future.
Daily line-hauls are operated from all three current locations, ensuring fast and efficient direct connections to many hub centres in Dachser’s comprehensive pan-European network. In this way, the Company provides an extremely reliable door-to-door distribution service for palletised consignments with all the benefits of track & trace visibility.
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ABOUT DACHSER UK
DACHSER UK is part of the Dachser group, a major international logistics provider which on 31 Dec. 2012 generated total sales worth EUR 4.41 billion. 21,650 staff working in 347 locations worldwide handled 49.8 million consignments comprising 37.46 million tonnes.
For more information, please visit www.dachser.co.uk