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Asda goes for Gateway hub
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• Gateway's most recent distribution centre in Huntingdon, which opened last week, will be sold to Asda if the proposed supermarket chain buyout goes ahead.
A consortium of international investors has just launched a £1.7 billion bid for control of the company.
Louis Sherwood, chairman of Gateway Foodmarkets, says: "I feel extremely negative about the proposed sale."
The 23,000m2 distribution centre, which cost M million and services the east of England, will handle 400,000 cases a week. The third-party transport operation is handled by Heron Freight, which is using 52 vehicles for the deal. Trans
fleet and BRS also bid for the contract.
Gateway is also seeking permission to build another distribution centre in Aylesford, Kent.
0 Gateway has added six double-deck trailers to its Scottish fleet, to replace 15 standard 12m trailers. The company says the double-deckers, developed with Scottish Road Services and Wilson DoubleDeck Trailers of Ireland, offer 46% more capacity.
Now Gateway plans to extend the experiment to other UK distribution centres.