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United States Cold Storage Adds Warehouse In Quakertown, Pa.

This new location enables USCS to continue to grow its multi-vendor consolidation program and, in turn, drive down shipping costs for current customers.

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Maines Paper & Food Service Reduces Tractor Fleet Repair And Maintenance Costs

Maines first partnered in 2010 with Fleet Advantage to study the feasibility of a paradigm shift from 6- to 8-year full-service truck leases to the EXchangeIT operating lease model using 4-year lifecycles combined with contract maintenance.

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C.A.T. Partners With GAIN Clean Fuel

C.A.T., formerly known as Canadian American Transportation C.A.T. Inc., recently signed an agreement with Ryder for the lease of 100 sleeper tractors operating on CNG, nearly a third of C.A.T.’s fleet of 325 tractors.

IFDA Conference Report: Distributors Explain How They Reduced Miles But Sustained Customer Service

International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA)

Sean Jones, senior VP of transportation at Naperville, Ill.-based Eby-Brown and Matthew Granlund, vice president of operations and logistics at Hattiesburg, Miss.-based Merchants Foodservice described how their companies accomplished these goals.

Sean Jones explains Eby-Brown’s rerouting efforts. Matt Granlund of Merchants Foodservice, seated, listens attentively.

Blue Apron Opens New Jersey Fulfillment Center; Ingredient/Recipe Service Delivers More Than 1 Million Meals Monthly

N.J. This new fulfillment center, which will begin shipping meals on Dec. 1, 2014, is 10 times larger than the previous fulfillment center.

Lineage Logistics Expands In Pacific Northwest

With the expansion, Lineage’s presence in the region will total nearly 1.5 million square feet of refrigerated warehousing space across five warehouses located in Seattle, Algona, Tacoma and Centralia.

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Infinity Transportation To Launch Expedited Refrigerated Intermodal Service

IT's new intermodal operating platform, Infinity Logistics (ITL), is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. Daily operations will be managed from a dedicated location in Kansas City, Mo.

Budreck Truck Lines Breaks Ground On Freezer/Cooler Facility In Monee, Ill.

The site was selected as the preferred location for Budreck because of its visibility from I-57, proximity to Monee-Manhattan Road and TIF incentives from the Village of Monee.

From L to R: Tim Johnson, Tom Sauter, Rory Subler, Brad Subler, Chad Silvester, Ken Lattanzi, Doug Brucato, Chris Gary, James Molzahn, Jared Kenyon and Mark Augustyn.

IFDA Conference Report: ‘Warehouse Boot Camp’ Focuses On Workforce Solutions

The “boot camp” addressed a variety of supervisor concerns, such as how to recruit, how to train, what performance metrics to measure and how to compensate employees.

At left, Shaun McFaul, Ben E. Keith Co., Angel Garcia, Nicholas & Co., Paul Lodics, Eby-Brown Co. LLC, and Mike Hammond, Red Diamond Inc., field questions about motivating employees.

IFDA Conference Report: Vercillo Stresses Importance Of Variable Costs In Food Distribution

International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA)

A key theme that emerged from Vercillo's presentation at IFDA was the need to understand that all costs are variable and he urged distributors to adopt a “variable cost mentality.”

Dr. Tony Vercillo notes the importance of variable costs in food distribution.

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Walmart Uses Weather Forecasts To Predict Sales

Walmart has been acting on correlations between weather and store sales on a zip code level with store-level merchandising and hyper-local digital advertising – and achieving big results.

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Buffalo Niagara International Gateway Organization To Create Western New York Logistics Hub

The Buffalo Niagara International Trade Gateway Organization's (ITGO) primary goal is to create a globally-known logistics hub in Western New York.

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