Husky Goes Green

International refrigeration specialist, Husky Group has re-organised its storage and delivery processes that will streamline the company’s UK logistical operations, reduce its carbon footprint and enable the company to focus on its core business.
Husky’s warehousing operation in Manchester will now take delivery directly from the company’s manufacturing plants around the world, sharing administrative IT systems with Husky’s Lutterworth headquarters in Leicestershire. Prior to the change, equipment would be unloaded at the Lutterworth warehouse facilities, then re-packed en route to the Manchester site for onward delivery to customers.
Geoff Thomasson, Chief Executive, Husky Group Ltd said: “Husky’s core skills are inventing, sourcing and supplying innovating types of refrigeration products. We then took on warehousing and delivery responsibilities years ago to add value to our customer service. Now it makes sense – from the business, environmental and customer perspectives – to have all that handled in one move.”
As well as reducing the likelihood of damage to the goods during handling – many of which, though robust, are glass-fronted – Husky anticipates making substantial savings in haulage miles and fuel.
Husky has also taken the opportunity to optimise its workspace in Lutterworth returning, in effect, to its roots. All its operations are now on the ground floor of a building that it once used in its entirety. “The single storey, open plan design is far more efficient. Everyone – from our engineers to senior management – is far more accessible and visible and has reacted well to the changes. It’s business as usual, but without the duplication of paperwork and effort and more opportunity to do what we do best,” Geoff Thomasson added.
Husky’ Group’s UK business continues to grow, with recruitment continuing apace at is Lutterworth site, while globally Husky is preparing to open new offices in the US as well as announcing its first distributor there, new warehouse facilities in Venezuela, and has won a contract to supply refrigeration products into Cuba – the first units freely sold into that country since Fidel Castro assumed power in 1959.