Wholesale and catering supplier, Bidvest 3663, is adding to its 26-strong UK network with a new storage and distribution facility within the M4 corridor. The Slough Trading Estate building will also become the company’s head office.
Due for completion by spring next year, the new 117,400sq ft complex will become the food service provider’s regional distribution centre, allowing it to relocate its UK head office from High Wycombe. The scheme is being delivered by warehousing and light industrial specialist Segro.
Construction of the Leigh Road building has been accelerated by the Slough Trading Estate’s status as a Simplified Planning Zone (SPZ) which automatically grants full planning permission for the construction of industrial project, as long as they fall within SPZ regulations.
“It is vital for us to find the right spaces and locations that enable us to remain local to our customers throughout the UK and the opening our first regional facility at Slough Trading Estate is great news for our business,” explained Bidvest 3663’s southern region managing director, David Hodgson.
“Bidvest 3663 is passionate about delivering high quality food and related products to its customers in the foodservice industry and this new distribution hub is in the ideal location to enable us to provide our customers with a fast, efficient service, as well as provide new employment opportunities for the local community,” he added.
Next year’s move is part of a rolling Bidvest programme to streamline its nationwide operation. “By attracting new customers like Bidvest to the Slough Trading Estate, we are reinforcing its credentials as a world-class business destination at the heart of the M4 corridor,” said Gareth Osborn, Segro’s Business Unit Director for Thames Valley.
“The health of the UK economy is intrinsically linked to the logistics sector as the growth of business is reliant on the efficient movement of goods, to both domestic and overseas markets.”
He said Segro — which owns or manages 61.3-million square feet of space across eight European countries — will “continue to support the industry by providing expanding firms such as Bidvest 3663 with high quality industrial space in prime strategic locations”.
Bidvest 3663 is the latest company to announce a move to Slough Trading Estate which is currently undergoing a massive redevelopment programme. Last year it attracted almost a quarter-of-a-million square feet of new business, including purpose built facilities for Fedex and Sovrin Plastics.
Starting life as a First World War ammunitions depot, it now covers 486-acres and provides 7.5-million square feet of space for more than 500 businesses. In addition to the Segro scheme it has 230,000sq ft of speculative development due for completion by the end of 2016.
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