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Culina invests in value added services.


Culina Logistics has established a dedicated co-packing area at its new Prime Point distribution centre in Staffordshire to meet growing demand for re-worked products from customers.

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 manufacturers promotional offers targeted at consumers, along with different retailer requirements for specific packaged quantities, the new service enables customers to benefit from a one-stop supply chain solution.

The co-packing area includes conveyors for handling product and ink-jet printers for printing use by dates onto carton sleeves and packaging boxes.

Employing around 20 warehouse operatives, Culina provides a flexible value added Value Added

The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers.

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This can either increase the products price or value.
 service to manage incentives, such as buy one get one free (BOGOF BOGOF Buy One Get One Free ) promotions.

Already Culina has been re-palletising and bar-coding yogurts, repacking soft cheese products into mixed twin-packs and re-labelling fresh fruit smoothies.

Over 100,000 cases are handled per week and product must be packed accurately to meet each client's exact requirements.

At the 172,000 sq ft (15,956 sq m) temperature-controlled distribution centre, next to J14 of the M6, activities also include re-sleeving and Deliveries are made across the country to major supermarket RDCs (regional distribution centres), cash and carry companies, wholesalers, convenience stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence.  and independent retailers.

Colin Shepherd Colin Ryley Shepherd (born 13 January, 1938) is a British Conservative politician. He was MP for Hereford from October 1974 until his defeat by Liberal Democrat Paul Keetch in May 1997. , general manager for Culina at Prime Point, says: "Culina continues to invest in services that will cost effectively support our customer's varied supply chain requirements.

"A prime example is the new co-packing facility, which enables us to offer additional value added services in-house In-house

In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm.
 and removes the need for double handling. It is proving very successful--we have been contracted to handle work for customers right up to next Christmas."

Culina also provides a range of value added services at its Market Drayton and Milton Keynes Milton Keynes (mĭl`tən kēnz`), town (1991 pop. 36,886) and borough, S central England. Milton Keynes was designated one of the new towns in 1967 to alleviate overpopulation in London. It is the seat of the Open Univ.  distribution centres.

Contact Culina Logistics on tel: 01630 695000 or visit www.culinalogistics.co.uk
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Title Annotation:EXPANSIONS
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Date:Sep 1, 2006
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