Britvic has invested £25m to upgrade its national distribution centre in Leicestershire which supplies national and international customers with soft drinks including Robinsons, Tango and J2O.
The recent £20m investment, which comes on top of the £5m injected into the Lutterworth site over the last three years, has resulted in improvements and updates to the technical systems and facilities at its warehouse and logistics operation.
As a result of the investment, the soft drink giant’s site now has 17 new automatic cranes, 18 dispatch lanes to load lorries from and 20 automated cars to transport pallets around the warehouse, with the capacity to move 600 pallets an hour from the warehouse to customers.
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Over the course of a normal year, 75,000 trucks, carrying 1.9 million pallets to over 900 locations pass through the distribution centre’s security gatehouse and this investment will see more trucks through the gates to accommodate the increased pallet numbers.
As part of the investment, the distribution centre also offers refreshed office and meeting spaces, in line with Britvic’s ‘Working Well’ approach to flexible working, and now has 10 brand-new electric vehicle charging stations for employees, including a new 47kw Direct Current fast charger.
Britvic supply chain director Nigel Paine said: “This cutting-edge facility enables us to continue offering our customers the wide range of Britvic products they love, while also providing our employees with a dynamic work environment that supports their best performance.”
It comes as the latest in a string of investments into Britvic’s supply chain, including ploughing £40m in its Rugby factory over the past two years, which has seen the installation of a fifth canning line at the factory, and £8m invested in a heat recovery system at its Beckton factory in London, which cuts factory emissions by an estimated 1,200 tonnes annually.
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You would have thought it would have made more sense to have the National Distro Centre adjacent or very close to the Rugby factory … than 20 miles away.