DARTFORD UPDATE - 8 MORE WEEKS!

10 May 2023

The countdown is on to the move to our new home in Dartford. Eight weeks and counting.

Quite soon after we set Albion up in 2017 we wondered if we’d outgrow our first warehouse in Tonbridge. Our teams grafted through those first couple of years and towards the end of 2019 we had a move planned. That was put on hold when Covid struck and our recovery from early 2020 was as hard and painful as everyone else in the industry; none of us want to go through that again. Towards the end of 2021 we began to look again but this time our ambition was a little bigger. There’s a thing about how our folks here at Albion work; anyone who has been to see us at Tonbridge wonders how we do what we do with what we’ve got. We were determined that when we did move we would do our best to make our new site the very best for our people and also ensure we could iron out all the issues that we know cause frustration for our customers.

We are hoping we will have achieved this with Crossways, our new warehouse in Dartford. It’s a big site, bigger than we had in mind originally, but we’ve designed the fit out of the building to allow us to hold more stock, run our production side more efficiently, and pick, pack and load orders more accurately. We’ve also invested in new tech for our drivers, again mindful of how we can improve customer service.

Our first teams moved into the new building two weeks ago and they’re getting their feet firmly under the table. Our first warehouse teams started work this week and the transition is planned to be gradual over the next eight weeks. All being well, we’ll be fully moved by the end of June and the plan is only to miss one Sunday of deliveries while we make the final move. Our teams are excited to get started and we are too to show you what we’ve been working towards for so long.

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