“Our new state of the art distribution centre at Merrifield Business Park will be the company’s single-biggest investment in Australia and enable Kaufland’s expansion. Merrifield was selected for its strategic location and ability to cater for future expansion of the facility,” said a Kaufland spokesman.
The new $450 million distribution centre, located on the Hume Highway, will feature extensive temperature controlled storage, the latest automated warehousing with a 40 metre high bay storage as well as a 3,600 square metre office.
In February, The Australian Financial Review revealed that Schwartz Group had injected another $145 million of capital into Kaufland Australia taking taking paid up capital to $323 million.
According to IbisWorld, Woolworths has 37.5 per cent share of the $103.4 billion supermarket and groceries market with Coles at just under 30 per cent, discount chain Aldi at 10 per cent and IGA (Metcash) at 7.3 per cent.
In January, Coles said it would spend close to a billion dollars over the next six years fitting out huge state-of-the-art automated warehouses in Sydney and Brisbane to be developed by Goodman Group.
Woolworths’ new $215 million fully-automated distribution centre in Dandenong South in Melbourne – which is owned by Charter Hall – is close to being fully operational.
MAB director of business Parks, Michael Martin, said the Merrifield Business Park had successfully lured a number of brands to relocate from interstate, including D’Orsogna from Western Australia and Steritech from Queensland, to take advantage of the location.
Merrifield Business Park in Mickleham is the largest masterplanned business and employment precinct in Victoria, spanning 330 hectares and destined to create up to 12,000 new jobs.
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