Davies Turner & Co Ltd started building their latest logistics centre last February. Located at Central Park in Severn Beach, the hub is now open & already buzzing with activity.

The building is a 150,000 sq. ft. (14,000 sqm.) logistics centre, equipped with 60 ft. (18 m.) high racking for pallet storage.  It not only offers logistics warehousing, but also multi-storey mezzanines suitable for the sortation, rework and fulfilment services required for the company’s growing logistics services for e-commerce and online retail business.

The new site will be the central hub for the South West region, using innovative supply chain solutions. It is a multi-user facility specialising in Wholesale, Retail & E-Commerce, with networked & dedicated distribution for parcels, pallets, part & full load deliveries throughout the UK, Continental Europe & World Wide.

Davies Turner chairman, Philip Stephenson explained: “We were attracted by the strategic location next to the M49, close to where the M4 and M5 intersect & near both Severn River bridges. The business park will have its own junction on the M49 and is even rail-connected.

“Our Bristol location, which also houses our subsidiary, Davies Turner Air Cargo, has had outstanding success in recent years & expanded rapidly in co-operation with our European partners and with those in the wider world markets including North America, the Middle and Far East, and Australasia.

The company’s existing freight hub is close by & will operate in tandem with the new facility, with each site delivering complementary supply chain solutions.

“This cluster-based approach will allow us to pool our local management & labour resources. It represents a much-needed expansion of capacity serving our customers in the UK's West Country and South Wales.”

Bristol is one of Davies Turner’s key multimodal freight hubs, with satellite branches in Bridgend, Plymouth & Southampton. The region also works with the rest of the company’s network with premises of equal importance at Birmingham, Dartford, Heathrow, Manchester & Cumbernauld in Scotland, as well as Dublin in Ireland – with other smaller branches supporting them.

Looking to the future, the company has bought enough land at Central Park to develop a second warehouse on the same site capable of adding at least another 130,000 sq ft (12,000 sq m) as business expands again, following the pattern set at its other regional distribution centres over the last 25 years. One advantage of this phased construction is that the second building can if necessary be designed for a specific customer, allowing for a bespoke layout & specialist automation.

The site could bring up to 250 jobs to the area, with a variety of jobs available from office to warehousing roles.

Central Park is a 600 acre warehouse & distribution development. Strategically located & designed to be the South West’s largest distribution park.