Gist and Cavaghan & Gray strengthen relationship
October 2008
Gist has signed a new three year warehousing and distribution contract with Cavaghan & Gray, a Carlisle based manufacturer of ready meals.
This latest deal cemented a long standing relationship between the two businesses, stretching back to the 1980s. What started out as an ad hoc transport arrangement soon became a formal transport contract, with Cavaghan & Gray drivers transferring to Gist on a number of occasions starting nearly 20 years ago. With Cavaghan & Gray outsourcing the core transport elements of their business to leading supply chain specialist Gist, this relationship was strengthened further.
The new deal saw 31 employees transfer from Cavaghan & Gray to Gist to undertake the warehousing element of the agreement.
A new development in the contract is a right for Gist to use Cavaghan & Gray’s deep freeze facility on the premises, which has further enhanced Gist’s offering to the food industry. This 5000 pallet space offers new capacity to meet the ever increasing demand in this region of the UK.
Paul Littmoden, account director, Gist, said: “We were thrilled to extend our relationship with Cavaghan and Gray. We feel this represents their faith in Gist as an ongoing service provider and reflects our expert knowledge, both in the logistics arena and as a quality supplier who wants to build long term relationships with its customers.”
On completion of the contract, Mark Murray, general manager of Cavaghan & Gray said: “We are pleased to be able to continue to develop our relationship with Gist, who have been operating on our site for many years now. It is not only the excellence of their service that helps our business relationship but also the knowledge that they care for their staff so we feel happy that our transferring employees will be well looked after.”
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Notes to Editors:
About Gist:
Gist combines leading edge experience and expertise to transform supply chains. With industry-specific understanding, know-how and excellence, Gist's solutions bring end-to-end visibility and implementation, from concept to delivery.
Gist's 5,000 employees operate out of 35 locations, providing a full range of intellectual and asset-based business offerings in the UK and continental Europe.
Gist is the largest importer of flowers into the UK and is the 6th largest contracts logistics company in the country.
Gist's customers (including British Airways, Marks & Spencer, Carlsberg UK, and Dutch Flower Group) operate in a wide range of commercial and industrial sectors, including grocery, electronics and gas.
As part of The Linde Group, with around 50,000 employees working in 100 countries worldwide, Gist also benefits from Linde's global capability, synergy and scale.
