Vilnius, Lithuania, 2014-10-1— /EPR Retail News/ — Maxima Eesti owned by MAXIMA GRUPE started the construction of a new logistics centre in Harjumma County in Estonia. The total area of the centre, the warehouse and the office will be about 45 thousand square meters and will cost over LTL 100 million. About 350 vacancies will be offered after the construction is complete in the end of 2015. On Friday the time capsule was buried at the construction site by Manager of Maxima Eesti Vaidotas Pacesa, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Urve Palo and representatives of Rae municipality and the building company.
‘The business logic and business development in Estonia during the last years became the result of the decision to build a new logistics centre. Until now the part of the storage services in Estonia were bought from local companies and the remaining goods were delivered from Lithuania and Latvia. The new logistics center will lead to more efficient business development and a faster goods delivery to Maxima stores in Estonia, thus ensuring even greater freshness and quality of the products,’ said MAXIMA GRUPE General Director Neringa Janavičiute.
The new logistics center will be located next to Tallinn bypass road. The location is very convenient for both: goods delivery by the partners and goods distribution to the stores across the country. ‘We are very pleased that the government, local authorities and business co-operate in the project of this scale developing the surrounding infrastructure and totally reconstructing Tallinn bypass road,’ said Maxima Eesti Managing Director Vaidotas Pacesa. According to him, the company will invest more than LTL 1.7 million in the infrastructure of Rae municipality next to the future logistics center. Maxima also supports local social projects.
The new logistics center will become a central warehouse complex in the country, which will serve all Maxima stores in Estonia. The center will consist of dry and frozen food warehouses, including 13 platforms for acceptance of goods, which will be able to serve about 300 trucks a day. Modern solutions will be implemented in the object: a special warehouse management system and a temperature controlled goods storage. This will be one of the largest logistics centers built in the country at the same time.
The new logistics center was designed by Nord Projekt As, the general contractor of the project is AS Ehitusfirma Rand ja Tuulberg, author supervision is performed by As Telora-E. Currently there are 71 Maxima stores operating in Estonia and their number is going to be increased up to 73 by the end of the current year.
Retail companies operating in Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Bulgaria controlled by MAXIMA GRUPE use their own and leased logistics centers. The warehouse area in Lithuania is over 100 thousand square meters, in Latvia – over than 60 thousand square meters. After this logistics project is implemented in Estonia, the warehouse area of the company in this country will increase to 45 thousand square meters.
MAXIMA GRUPE is a holding company set up in 2007, managing retail companies in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Bulgaria. In all the countries MAXIMA GRUPE operates 511 stores: Maxima X, Maxima XX, Maxima XXX, Aldik, T-Market. Lithuania operates 228 stores, Latvia – 145, Estonia – 71, Bulgaria – 42, Poland – 25. In 2013 the turnover of consolidated MAXIMA GRUPE was LTL 8.699 billion excluding VAT.