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Our Chattanooga and Salt Lake City client – Kenco muscles up as swim course presenting sponsor for Little Debbie IRONMAN® Chattanooga Triathlon

Kenco will be the IRONMAN Chattanooga Swim Course presenting sponsor and will handle equipment and supply logistics for the event. “Kenco is proud to help bring IRONMAN to Chattanooga for the first time,” said Senior Vice President Sean Coakley. “We are headquartered in a beautiful city with fantastic recreational opportunities, and we can’t wait to… Read more »

Our Chattanooga, Salt Lake City, Clearfield, Ogden client – Kenco Logistic Services LLC – DC Measures 2014 Report Released; Highlights How Companies Can Use Benchmarking Data to Improve Productivity

The Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) has released DC Measures 2014, its annual benchmarking study of key warehousing and distribution performance metrics. The study captures the 47 key operational metrics of particular importance to most distribution professionals, grouped into seven categories: customer, operational, financial, capacity/quality, employee/safety, perfect order and cash-to-cash cycles. New to the… Read more »

Our Detroit and Suffolk client – Evans Distribution Systems recently celebrated its 85th anniversary

Our Detroit and Suffolk client – Evans Distribution Systems recently celebrated its 85th anniversary with a few hundred employees and others from the community. The event was hosted at the Evans headquarters in Melvindale, MI. Mayor Stacy Striz of Melvindale, members of the Southern Wayne County Regional Chamber, Automation Alley, and others were in attendance… Read more »

Our Charleston, SC, Columbia and Dallas client – UTi Worldwide Establishes Global and Regional Ocean Charter

UTi Worldwide, a global supply chain services and solutions company, recently established ocean charter service centers to coordinate the fastest possible response to energy, mining and construction industries clients, which is an important market segment for the company. These client services teams are strategically located in Amsterdam, Johannesburg and Singapore, with a global hub in… Read more »

Our Twin Falls, ID, Grand Forks, ND, Stillwell, OK, Forest Grove, OR, Portland, OR, Scranton, PA, Kent, WA Richland, WA freezer client – Henningsen Cold Storage and NORPAC Foods, Inc. celebrate the completion of their new cold storage facility

NORPAC Foods, Inc., a leading producer of fruit and vegetable products, and Henningsen Cold Storage Company celebrated their new 225,000 sq. ft. frozen food storage and distribution facility with an open house for its farmer-owners, employees, partners and civic officials. The new facility is owned and operated by Hillsboro, OR-based Henningsen Cold Storage, one of… Read more »

2014 Directory of Transportation

We were listed in the 2014 Directory of Transportation under warehousing.  Published by the Journal of Commerce, www.joc.com  

Fancy Food Show

We will be attending the 60th Summer Fancy Food Show, North America’s largest specialty food and beverage event in New York City June 29 – July 1, 2014.  There are 2,400 exhibitors from 80 countries and regions.  If interested in attending visit www.specialtyfood.com

Our Chattanooga, Salt Lake City, Clearfield and Ogden client – Kenco Logistic Services LLC – Pricing: It’s Space and Labor, part 2…Labor

In the January blog part on Pricing, the topic was pricing space. The purpose of this post is to now discuss the major component of pricing in our industry; labor. The first disclaimer I must make is I believe “pricing” is a management decision, and “costing” is a calculated estimate based on assumptions and data…. Read more »