distribution center

Cookeville, Tennessee-based Averitt Express recently opened a 400,000-square-foot distribution and fulfillment center in Grand Prairie, Texas, near Dallas. The new center, which employs about 70 workers, is aimed at streamlining supply chains for manufacturers, distributors and retailers, company...

XPO Logistics Inc. (NYSE: XPO) will lay off more than 300 workers at its Fort Worth distribution center in April, according to a notice filed with the Texas Workforce Commission TWC. According to the notice, XPO plans to lay off a total of 304 workers at its AllianceTexas facility, located at 3300...

Averitt Express, a less-than-truckload (LTL) and logistics firm, has opened a distribution center in Atlanta. It is the company's first such facility in the booming metropolis. The 140,000-square-foot facility, near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on the city's southside, will complement...

IKEA has opened a distribution center near Toronto, its first in Canada operated by a third party, DHL Supply Chain. The Swedish retailer officially opened the facility in Kleinburg, Ontario, on Sept. 19, but it has been gradually scaling operations for the past two months.  The 550,000-square-...

DHL Supply Chain said today it will spend $100 million to build a 1.7 million square foot warehouse and distribution center complex near Charleston, South Carolina.  The Westerville, Ohio-based unit of Deutsche Post DHL group said it will construct three buildings in Dorchester County, South...