UNFI to optimize Pacific Northwest distribution centers
This plan includes building a new facility and expanding another to enhance customer product offerings, create more efficient inventory management, streamline operations and incorporate best-in-class technology.
UNFI, Providence, R.I., announced plans to optimize its distribution center network in the Pacific Northwest. This plan includes building a new facility and expanding another to enhance customer product offerings, create more efficient inventory management, streamline operations and incorporate best-in-class technology. The optimization of the Pacific Northwest distribution network will also help deliver synergies contemplated in the acquisition of SUPERVALU in October 2018.
UNFI entered into a long-term lease agreement with a developer in Centralia, Wash., to construct a 1.2 million-square-foot distribution center exclusively for UNFI on approximately 77 acres. The Centralia distribution center is located in close proximity to two existing UNFI distribution centers in Tacoma, Wash., and Portland, Ore.