FULLERS LOGISTICS GROUP

History

   
   
       
   

The Seventies & Eighties

 
   

The seventies saw the movement into warehousing and ancillary services and the establishment of a permanent base in Slough:-

  • 1973 - First dedicated warehouse facility for storing packaging products opened.
  • 1976 - Raw material storage warehouse opened.
  • 1977 - 1985 Expanded warehousing to provide the following services:-
    • Powder Blending
    • Container stuffing - export of Finished Goods
    • QA sampling/testing
    • Cocoa Bean analysis
    • Nut cleaning and de-bagging
    • Residual Nitrogen flushing
    • Raw materials sample library
    • Product Recovery
    • Temperature Controlled storage
  • 1985 - Automated loading and offloading of 40′ trailers.
  • 1988/9 - Technology based route planning system introduced.