Restructuring sees Grimsby logistics firm deliver results
GROWING demand for add-on services offered by Grimsby-based ACS&T Logistics has seen the creation of three new divisions.
The divisions, each of which will be headed by a new management team, will see ACS&T offering a wider range of ancillary services to its customers.
As well as temperature controlled storage and transportation clients will be able to take advantage of other services including supplier and inventory management and specialist packaging.
Carl Robinson, ACS&T sales and commercial director, said that the firm's services had broadened over the years, and that the restructuring was as a result of their success.
“These additional services have grown organically in response to demand from customers who value our high levels of expertise and efficiency,” he said.
“We believe that now is the right time to make them available to more customers. The restructuring of our business into three divisions will allow us to achieve this objective.”
ACS&T's temperature controlled division will now offer specialist temperature controlled food storage and distribution services for frozen, chilled, raw and finished products. Stock control, pallet consolidation, shared user distribution, blast freezing, tempering and manufacturing support is also provided.
Cost effective storage and “just in time” delivery for ambient raw foodstuffs and packaging will be offered through the production support division.
The company will also be able to offer a wider range of co-packing for frozen, chilled and ambient product, specialist services from hand packing to automated flow-wrapping, dedicated clean room facilities, check weighing, and product or packaging correction through its complete packing division.
ACS&T's modern day operation is a far cry from its origins as the London Ice & Cold Storage Company, responsible for the country's first ever cold store for fish underneath Billingsgate Market.
In 1934 it had achieved another first by opening the country's first low-temperature cold store in Grimsby.
Today the £30m turnover company, which employs around 450 staff, operates 14 cold stores, two ambient stores, extensive co-packing facilities and large, dedicated and shared-user multi-temp transport fleets.
It is a wholly owned subsidiary of international investment firm Camellia.
