Saltash, Cornwall, UK: Appleby Westward – Spar’s wholesaler in the west country – is to spend £8.5m on its warehousing this year as part of a £10m investment overall.
The company is to build new warehousing, along with the refurbishment of its existing warehouse in Saltash. The warehouse investment includes plans for a chilled cross deck, allowing the company to provide multi-temperature deliveries from its Saltash site and the Gregory Distribution site at Cullompton.
Gregory Distribution secured a further five-year contract with the Appleby Westward Group in 2019.
“A warehouse extension will be built on the land we own adjacent to our current warehouse buildings,” said Mike Boardman, Appleby Westward’s managing director. “In addition to the new building, we will be modernising the existing warehouse buildings. This is a major capital investment and reflects not just our recent rapid growth but also our ambitions for the future.”
