CEVA Logistics, one of the world’s leading supply chain companies, and Pellegrini, the leading Italian services supply company – including catering, food supply, voucher, vending, cleaning and integrated services – have agreed a 5-year contract for in-house warehouse management at Pellegrini’s Peschiera Borromeo facility, near Milan.
 
CEVA will manage a warehouse of 8,500 square meters which will store and handle fresh, frozen and non-food products. Specifically, CEVA will manage approximately 2,500 product lines and will handle 300,000 pallets, equivalent to 6 million pieces per year.
 
This new approach being implemented by CEVA will provide Pellegrini with maximum warehouse efficiency management and will optimize the product distribution flow.
 
“We have chosen to rely on CEVA for our hub management because we believe we will gain real efficiency improvements in our warehouse through the market-leading skills and experience CEVA has developed in our sector. This decision will allow us to accelerate our growth plans and we believe that CEVA is the right partner to support us. From our partnership, we expect concrete benefits in terms of flexibility, quality, service levels, punctuality and cost saving," commented Fabio Broglia, Director of Pellegrini Central Food division.
 
“We are proud to have signed this deal with Pellegrini, an example of Italian excellence with a strong leadership in its market. We will ensure the company has real, tangible support for its development by providing them with innovative and best-in-class logistics flow management" stated Alberto Mariani, Sales Director of CEVA Italy.
 
This new partnership marks a further step by CEVA in its plan to facilitate and support the growth of Italian entrepreneurship, through providing excellence in logistics solutions which are dedicated to SMEs.