Le Havre, France: Temperature-controlled food logistics firm Seafrigo has acquired UK-based Perishable Movements. All PML locations will operate using a new co-branding, before to eventually becoming Seafrigo.
PML operates from three locations in the UK – Heathrow, Lincolnshire and Kent – providing air, ocean and road forwarding as well as warehousing and value-added services. PML employs 170 people.
Seafrigo regional chief executive, Jason Knox, says: “With its excellent market reputation and our shared expertise in the management and distribution of temperature-controlled goods this deal is the perfect fit for us. Through an expanded airfreight capability which PML will bring to our operation, all our customers will be able to benefit from an improved service offering, expanded geographic coverage, scale of operations, improved buying power and enhanced service solutions”.
PML chief executive Mike Parr says: “ We are delighted to become part of the Seafrigo Group which has more than 40 years’ specialist leadership in the temperature-controlled food logistics market. The deal provides us all with the opportunity to grow and enhance our business and to truly control the global logistics chain from origin to destination for our customers.”
Seafrigo Group chief executive, Eric Barbé, says: “Together we have the synergies and determination to build the world’s leading end-to-end temperature-controlled organisation and I am delighted to have their team onboard”.
