Leading wholesaler Stax Trade Centres has just announced, at the recent Supplier Conference, plans to open a sixth branch in Glasgow at the end of August 2015. The new dual purpose distribution centre and cash & carry is set to be the company’s second depot in Scotland, following on from the Edinburgh branch, which opened in September 2011. 

The nationwide wholesaler purchased the former distribution site, on the Easter Queenslie Road Industrial Estate - on the East side of Glasgow in Autumn 2014 - and work is well underway to transform the site into a fully refurbished, state of the art warehouse to mirror the existing larger branches across England. 

The 7.2 acre site with 80,000 sq ft warehouse is located just 3 miles outside of Glasgow city centre and just minutes off junction 10 of the M8, ensuring that the depot is ideally placed to serve the Scotland’s main population centres, further enhancing Stax’s coverage of the Scottish market place. 

It will also be the first of the Stax branches designed to support a fully delivered operation in addition to still catering for customers who prefer the traditional cash and carry option. 

Glasgow will have a dedicated marshalling area of over 10,000 sq ft for delivering and dispatching stock and the large site also includes parking for up to 100 vehicles at the front of the building. 

The light and airey interior, together with the goods in storage capacity will ensure that Glasgow will be a full service operation carrying the full range from all current Stax suppliers following the same successful formula as the English trade centres. The site will enjoy 500 bays, 42 promotion ends, 10 checkouts and a kitchen and bathroom showroom the same size as the Manchester branch. 

Operations Director, Nigel Wright, who has been overseeing the building work comments, “This is the first Stax branch purpose designed to accommodate a fully delivered operation, whilst still combining the benefits of cash & carry. We have invested £5 million in this site and that’s before stock and the opportunity that we have with the new Stax Glasgow branch is similar when we were able to build the first of our modern units in Birmingham 14 years ago in that we were able to design the building to accommodate the developing requirements of our business.” 

The new centre will have a full service cafeteria and a full length loading canopy to protect against the weather with a large number of tills ensuring that customers will have the same standard of experience that they have come to expect of the existing branches. 

Branch and office staff will also benefit from modern offices designed specifically for a high tech environment with scope for future expansion. 

Work is fully underway at the branch which is due to open at the end of August 2015 and will launch with an extensive multi-channel marketing campaign before hosting this year’s Scottish Big Brands show in September, ensuring that the staff and management team will be busy from day one. 

 

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