As part of the national 2024 The Year of Warehousing campaign, UK Warehousing Association CEO Clare Bottle visited Wincanton’s brand-new site at Bellshill which opened in the summer and is providing employment for 200 people locally.
Representatives from North Lanarkshire Council joined Clare on the tour, which is stop No. 71 on her journey Around the Warehouses in 80 Visits to learn more about what goes on at the site, which handles cross-dock operations for blue-chip clients and contains 11,000 racked pallet locations.
Clare Bottle commented: “It was great to see how efficiently Wincanton was able to get this new site up and running and making a contribution to the local area as a thriving and expanding business.
“Thank you to Lindsay Ashton, Mike Watkins, Derek Stirling, Hannah Openshaw, Nicola Martin and all the team for such a wonderful visit.”
Derek Stirling added: “It was an honour to welcome Clare and the UKWA team, and a pleasure to showcase our new Scotland gateway site.
“Thank you to UKWA for choosing our site for the Year of Warehousing celebration!”
Background: Why 2024 is The Year of Warehousing
Warehousing remains one of the fastest-growing, yet least understood, sectors in the UK. This is partly because people rarely see what happens inside these often vast buildings, where millions of products are processed every day.
Accordingly, the essential work warehouses do has always been ‘behind the scenes’ and therefore to a large extent under-appreciated.
However, as the role of warehousing becomes increasingly central to everyday lives, it’s time to turn the spotlight onto the million-plus people who work in warehousing, all the great work they do, and for the sector to be more widely recognised for its contribution to the economy and our national life.
