PalletFORCE member, Gordon Leslie, growth underlined by move
Scottish transport company – and Member Depot of the PalletFORCE palletised distribution network – Gordon Leslie Distribution has moved into a new site to enhance the service it can offer to customers.
The move came after an intensive period of growth at Gordon Leslie. The company has recently completed its third year of trading since returning to family ownership; during that time sales have risen from GBP 2.5m to GBP 5.5m. At the same time, long term Gordon Leslie customer and partner London City Bond – a supplier of bonded warehouse facilities to the wine trade – required an expansion of service. Goods are stored under bond and transported from London to Glasgow by Gordon Leslie, from where its distribution fleet conducts onward delivery to hotels, restraunts and trade centres throughout Scotland.
“Put simply, our existing site wasn’t big enough for the volumes we’re getting,” explains Managing Director Craig Leslie. “We’d occupied the old depot in Linwood for 15 years but it was only 25,000 sq ft on two acres. The new site is four times as big!”
The 110,000 sq ft depot is built on 6½ acres of land at Hillington Park, Scotland’s largest park. Strategically located on the M8 corridor between Glasgow City Centre and Glasgow International, it is ideally placed for Gordon Leslie’s needs. The company has invested in significant refurbishment and security of the site to protect both its fleet and warehoused goods.
Craig Leslie believes the future outlook is strong for the firm. “With the help of Ray Mackay, PalletFORCE’s newly appointed Regional Sales Manager for Scotland, we believe that we’ll see further growth for our PalletFORCE activities. Accordingly, we have just placed an order for 15 new Volvo tractor units and rigids to be delivered in mid 2008,” he reports.
