New Ambient Storage Offering from Frozen Food Specialist

The UK’s largest cold storage and distribution provider has invested more than £500,000 in the creation of a state-of-the-art ambient storage chamber at its Grimsby depot. The 65,000 sq ft refurbished store provides more than 7500 pallet spaces within Yearsley Group’s existing warehouse facility. The creation of an ambient offering comes in response to demand from local manufacturers and importers using Humber Bank Port, to use a single supplier for both their frozen and dry goods. The newly refurbished dry goods store complements the group‘s traditional frozen storage offering, which extends to 40,000 pallets at Grimsby. It is expected that existing customers will want to take space in both sections, for both raw materials and packaging, as well as finished products. It is also aimed at new customers for whom frozen storage is not required, and could even be used to store non-food items such as homewares and electricals.

Harry Yearsley, Managing Director of Yearsley Group, said: “We store and distribute a lot of frozen stock on behalf of local manufacturers and importers using the Humber ports, and we realized many of them also have a requirement for dry goods storage. Rather than split their deliveries — taking on additional contracts, management time and road miles — we took a decision to invest in our facility to offer that additional service to our customers. Bringing the same level of service, quality of customer relations and best-in-class warehouse management system that we offer for cold storage to the ambient market, will also open up new opportunities for us in the area, enabling us to extend our service provision to a whole new range of customers.” The ambient store maximizes space with the use of narrow aisles, accessed with a fleet of ‘articulated’ forklift trucks which have the capability to retrieve pallets as well as individual cases. These hi-tech articulated trucks are supplied by Aisle-Master and driven by fully trained, dedicated staff.

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