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Woolies’ latest DC underway
WOOLWORTH’S Group supply chain arm, Primary Connect, has started to build the company’s temperature- controlled distribution centre at Heathwood in Queensland’s south east.
The 42,000 square metre DC will deliver 4000 frozen and chilled products to more than 260 stores across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Woolworth’s meat supplier Hilton Foods Australia will be co-located on the site, which is set to open in the first half of 2022. At full capacity, more than two million cartons a week will move through the Heathwood DC from more than 400 suppliers.
This is the latest in a number of
major DC investments made by the group including its 70,000 square metre, $560m purpose- built Melbourne South Regional Distribution Centre, a 15,000 square metre customer fulfilment centre in Sydney and the 40,700 square metre NDC being constructed in Sydney’s Moorebank, which is due to come online in late 2023.
The $184 million investment in Heathwood is majority funded by LOGOS (property development costs of $148 million), with Woolworths signing an initial 15-year lease on the site. It is being built by Vaughan Constructions, which also constructed the Melbourne South DC.
Pure Foods Tas says cheese
PURE Foods Tasmania (PFT) has acquired Lauds Plant Based Foods.
The plant-based alternative dairy business produces dairy and cheese made mainly from nuts and oats.
Lauds currently
produces all of PFT’s
recently launched New
Pastures range. The partnership ultimately led to the acquisition.
PFT CEO Michael Cooper announced the acquisition and New Pastures brand at the same time. He said the deal would secure the company’s move into the $3.9 billion plant-based cheese market.
The Lauds brand will sit alongside New Pastures, targeting a more traditional lifestyle motivated plant-based market compared to New Pastures’ broader mass consumer focus. Cooper said new distribution
channels will result for both brands with mainstream and niche health food distribution.
Cooper said Lauds was a “great fit”. “We believe we can build an amazing business that can bring more and more plant-based food and beverages to Australia and distribute to our core export customers, principally Hong Kong and Singapore,” he said.
PFT acquired Daly Potato Company in 2020 as part of its strategy to expanding into new categories. It is also looking into the beverage sector.
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