RLB Food distributors increase warehouse space
This added space provides 8 additional loading bays to the company’s 85,000-square-foot 13-bay warehouse located three miles away at the company’s headquarters in West Caldwell. Produce shippers benefit as well, as the increase in slotting capacity will allow for an increase of their product foothold in RLB’s market area, which spans from Northern Virginia to Boston.
The company has moved its entire deli, chilled and speciality inventory here, while freeing up space in its West Caldwell facility to expand its fresh produce offerings, including organics and locally-grown, to serve a broader range of retail customers. The re-engineered produce facility features 10 temperature/humidity zones with 55,000-square-feet of warehouse space. An additional 13,000-square-feet is devoted to RLB’s fresh-cut processing division, FreshPro.
Avillo says, “We will be expanding our fresh-cut operation within the West Caldwell facility in the future. Currently, the extra space now freed up by moving deli out allows us to have more room for raw product, finished product and packaging and a more efficient production flow.” Fresh and fresh-cut produce are a major segment of RLB’s business, representing 70 percent of dollar sales in 2013.
Both of RLB’s Fairfield and West Caldwell warehouses are HACCP-certified and third-party audited facilities.
For more information:
Floyd Avillo
RLB Food
Tel: +1 973-575-9526 ext. 128
Email: favillo@rlbfood.com