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CONTENTS • What’s Your Yardstick? • Energy Upgrades • Capacity Crunch • Chicago Expansion • Front Page • Visit the Hanson Website |
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 We are wrapping up our Chicago Consolidation Center Phase II expansion, with temperature draw down scheduled for later this month. This additional space is required in large part to the success of our Velocities™ Multi-Vendor Consolidation program, which now has a 50% larger customer pool than this same time last year. As we projected, there are a number of upper Midwest food processors that struggle to achieve acceptable margins in their national distribution. Velocities — and the opportunity to ship LTL at a shared truckload rate — provides the needed solution. Our second phase consists of new office areas and 2,517,000 cu. ft. of warehousing space, adding more short-term storage, 7,800 pallet positions, staging and dock space for frozen and refrigerated foods. The energy efficient, ultra-clean Chicago Consolidation Center is a three-phase, 14.5 million cu. ft. facility now in its third full year of operation. We designed the state-of-the-art complex specifically for high-volume throughput, including flexible racking for quick-pick consolidation and cross docking of temperature-controlled food products. This easy access facility is home to Hanson Transportation Management Services, which provides inbound, shuttle service, national truckload service, as well as Velocities™ Multi-Vendor Consolidation (MVC). Velocities delivers scheduled shared truckloads to major retail, wholesale and foodservice distribution centers throughout the US. The Chicago facility will eventually total of 45,000 pallet positions in deep frozen (-20°F) to (0°F) frozen and (28- 42°F) cooler areas. |
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Andrew Janson, President Matt Luckas, Vice President of Supply Chain Services Blake Larkin, Vice President of Business Development |
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