Distribution Centers Cropping Up Everywhere
In our daily quest for material handling news headlines, myself and a number of my colleagues subscribe to a service called Google Alerts, which sends links to all kinds of news stories about a particular term. One that has been cropping up a lot lately is “distribution center.”
- United Natural Foods plans Texas distribution center
- Andes International Establishes East Coast Warehouse
- Home Depot adds new distribution center in Topeka
- Fujifilm to expand Greenwood County distribution center
These are only a few that have come in over the last week or so. Is that an indication of new business out there?

It would seem so. Such news items have been coming in more frequently than in quite some time. Distributors, there is hope! Maybe things are turning around after all. I’ll know more about your outlooks as I continue to compile the 2010 Industry Forecast for The MHEDA Journal.
Let me know what you think!
Tags: distribution, economy, material handling






November 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
[...] As many of you know, I do more than just write MHEDA Edge. I also help with the daily news headlines at wikiMHEDA. Lately we’ve been noticing a promising trend—distribution centers seem to be cropping up all over the country. My colleague Chris Powers discussed this in his blog on Wednesday. [...]