For Immediate Release: October 15, 2009 Contact: Eddie Owens, APR, Director of Corporate Communications
(office: 806.788.4863; cell: 806.928.0462)
United Supermarkets to Build
2nd Distribution Center in Dallas-Fort Worth Area
LUBBOCK, Texas – Officials at United Supermarkets announced today the purchase of land in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex for the construction of the company’s second distribution center.
The facility will be located in Alliance Gateway Park on Freedom Drive in Roanoke, north of Fort Worth, according to Robert Taylor, vice president of logistics for United Supermarkets, LLC.
Site preparation work is expected to begin by mid-November, with anticipated completion by Sept. 1, 2010, Taylor said.
The 200,000-square-foot facility will be developed and operated by Exel, the logistics company which operates United’s distribution center at Llano Logistics in Lubbock.
“We have provisions in place for future expansion of the new facility if necessitated by company growth,” Taylor said.
The new distribution center will service 16 of the company’s 50 existing stores, including those in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Wichita Falls and Abilene areas. The facility also will serve as a consolidation point for product shipments bound for Lubbock.
“Having a second facility in the Metroplex also will provide additional room for us at our Lubbock D.C., which has been operating at maximum capacity for awhile now,” Taylor explained.
United currently operates six stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area – in Colleyville, McKinney, Allen, Frisco, Coppell and Plano. The latter four opened within a 14-month span ending last April.
Taylor said that 100 percent of United’s frozen food, 90 percent of its produce, and 75 percent of its dry grocery will originate from the DFW distribution center.Alliance Gateway Park, located west of Hwy. 377 in Roanoke, is home to more than 70 warehouse facilities, including those of Mitsubishi Motors, Motorola, AT&T, Ryder North American and several other facilities operated by Exel.
About United Supermarkets
Now in its 93rd year of operation, United Supermarkets, LLC, is a Texas-based, family-owned grocery chain with stores in 30 markets across north and west Texas. A self-distributing company with its headquarters and distribution center in Lubbock, United currently operates 50 stores under three distinct formats: United Supermarkets, Market Street and Amigos United.