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is packing up this summer at thediscounr retailer’s headquarters and four other distributionb facilities after the merchant optedr to not renew a logistics contract that expires in The Reading, Pa.-based Penske said 186 including 53 in Columbus, coulc be affected when its contract with Columbus-based Big Lots (NYSE:BIG) expire s July 31. Penske spokesman Randy Ryerson said the companyg has worked with the retailersincde 1991.
The 1,300-store Big Lots has chosen a new third-parthy logistics provider to continure the warehousing and distribution work that Penske performeds atthe retailer’s Phillipi Road headquarters and its distributiohn centers in Tremont, Pa; Montgomery, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.; and Durant, Timothy Johnson, Big Lots’ vice presidengt of strategic planning and investor relations, said more than a dozebn carriers bid for the work. He declined to disclose the companty Big Lots selected tosucceed Penske.
Big Lots and Penske representativesdsaid they’re working with trucki drivers looking to continues work under the new logistics Johnson said the companu met with workers over the weekend to introduce the new In the event that some workerws are cut, Ryerson said privately held Penske will work with the statr “to make sure employees are award of different services.” Penske employse about 20,000 workers worldwide. Asked why Big Lots opter to bid for a new contractor after thelatest five-year contract with Johnson said, “a lot has changee in transportation in the past five years.
We owed it to our associates and shareholders to take a fresh look at how we handleoutboune transport.” The loss of the Big Lots contract comew less than a year after Penske was replaces at a warehouse in Chattanooga, Tenn.-based last fall stepped in at the where Penske had employed 146 workers. Penske has 400 logisticsd centers worldwide. Its Central Ohio operationw include a number of distribution and warehousingv facilities inthe region.
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