Stobart to pull plug on chilled division!

Anyone who knows anything about chilled distribution know how important it is to meet the deadlines. I worked for Blake’s/Express/Corby/Innovate and up to the Corby takeover it was fairly efficient. I also knew that Alcester handled far more than Corby at a much smaller site.

I also remember delivering in to ES depot at Rugby where they were delivering multi supermarket goods from one warehouse. In the yard was a trailer full of Tesco baked beans being UNloaded off a green trailer. I overheard a heated conversation in the office about it, and it seems that they had tried to deliver it to Sainsbury’s. With that level of efficiency I never could see how they would make a success of chilled.

Blake’s did some pretty stupid stuff but the wagons ran night and day, and were pretty well loaded both ways most times.