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Founded in 1903 as the Singapore Cold Storage Company, [1] Cold Storage was one of the first supermarkets in Singapore to offer its merchandise online in 1997. The number of regular customers has since grown from 6,000 in 1998, to more than 15,000 in 2012. [2] In 1992, DFI purchased the company.
Food storage building with chillers. A cool store or cold store is a large refrigerated room or building designed for storage of goods in an environment below the outdoor temperature. Products needing refrigeration include fruit, vegetables, seafood and meat. Cold stores are often located near shipping ports used for import/export of produce ...
2800 Polar Way is a cold storage facility located in Richland, Washington, United States, where it dominates the northern landscape. [4] It is both the largest refrigerated warehouse [5] and the largest automated freezer on Earth. [6] Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) [7] financed the build-to-suit refrigerated warehouse for tenant Preferred ...
In July, Lineage acquired Henningsen Cold Storage, based in Portland, Oregon, with 14 cold storage facilities located mainly in Oregon and Washington, raising its employee roster to 16,000. [34] This acquisition raised Lineage's global storage capacity to 50,660,000 m 3 (1.789 × 10 9 cu ft).
Americold Realty Trust, Inc. is an American temperature controlled warehousing and transportation company based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.It is in the business of modern commercialized temperature controlled warehousing for the storage of perishable goods, one of the forms of food preservation.
As of 2013 the firm had 132 storage facility locations across the US and Canada. [16] The company also sells moving and packing supplies. [ 17 ] By May 2014 it had about 9.8 million square feet of rental space, in a total of 149. faciltieis [ 18 ] The average length of stay in its units is 42 months. [ 8 ]
The facility at Henry Clay, also in New Orleans, was constructed in 2012 with 127,000 square feet (5,100,000 cubic feet) of cold storage warehouse with a total storage capacity of 38,000,000 pounds of product. This plant has riverfront bulk break access as well as direct access to the Port of New Orleans container port.
By the 1980s the company had established a strong base in the West with eight facilities in BC, Alberta and Washington. A series of mergers and acquisitions throughout the 1990s put VersaCold on the continental and, by 2005, global map, as the purchase of P&O Cold Storage added operations in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.