NYK Logistics has opened a 330,000 sq ft distribution centre in Wellingborough to house its operations for a major customer.
It has invested £1 million in the former Somerfield distribution centre.
Some 5,000 pallets of the customer’s product have been transferred from NYK’s Grange Park site in Northampton to Wellingborough. 110 NYK staff from Grange Park have also been transferred to the new site.
The existing operation will occupy about 70 per cent of the site and work on the second phase, which will provide a further 85,000 sq ft of speculative warehousing space is scheduled for completion in November 2007.