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Article: Lansing trucks for Gateway at Ross-on-Wye.
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- Food Trade Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1989
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Lansing Trucks for Gateway at Ross-on-Wye
Within less than twelve months of its opening, Gateway's regional warehouse depot at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, had to be enlarged from its original 200,000sq ft to nearly a quarter of a million including 14,500sq ft of chill store.
Before its expansion, the total number of products exceeded 5000. Now its complement is in excess of 6500 and, as depot manager Ted Yates says: "As never before, success in retailing is dependent on the extent of the range of products consistently on offer at any time under one retail roof".
The warehouse, built on a 14 acre greenfield site, maintains a stockholding sufficient ...