CHEP HOSTS CUSTOMER FORUM TO ADDRESS ISSUE OF MANAGING PLATFORM COMPLEXITY IN THE UK SUPPLY CHAIN

CHEP, the world’s leading provider of pallet and container pooling solutions, recently hosted a forum for customers in the UK to explore potential solutions to help manage platform complexity associated with the challenging “last mile” of the supply chain. The “last mile” refers to the final portion of the supply chain through which a product [...]

CHEP Announces Customer Win in Printing Sector

CHEP, the world’s leading provider of pallet and container pooling solutions, has announced it has signed an initial 12 month contract with the Polestar Group, Europe’s leading independent printing company. Under the new agreement, Polestar will convert flows of its periodic magazine titles away from second-hand white wood pallets to CHEP’s industry standard B1210A pallet, [...]

CHEP Saves Millions With LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru®

CHEP, a global leader in managed, returnable and reusable packaging solutions, recently selected LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru® to support their supply chain design and strategic planning initiatives. CHEP serves many of the world’s largest companies in industry sectors like consumer goods, fresh produce, beverage and automotive. Its 300 million pallets and containers offer global coverage, [...]

Brambles Acquires Paramount Pallet

Over a year ago we reported on the renewed interest of Brambles in expanding its equipment pooling empire. PackagingRevolution.net has learned that Canada’s Paramount Pallet has been acquired by Brambles, parent of CHEP, IFCO and CAPS. Paramount is well known in the Canadian market as the country’s only pallet company with depot locations across the [...]

Pallet Information – Finding Out the Basics about Pallets

Need to get up to speed quickly on basic information about pallets? This pallet resources page is in the process of being developed just for that purpose. It is still a work in progress but look below to find a selection of articles from www.packagingrevolution.net as well as www.recycling.about.com. If you have basic informational articles [...]

Brambles Announces Strong Growth in 1Q

Brambles Limited, the world’s leading provider of pallet and container pooling solutions, delivered sales revenue of US$1,407.2 million in the first quarter of the 2012 financial year, up 32%1 on the prior corresponding period (27% in constant currency2). Excluding the contribution of operations acquired since 1 July 2010, sales revenue was up 9% (4% at [...]

CHEP to Expand into Seven More Countries in Central and Eastern Europe

CHEP, the global leader in pallet and container pooling services, has announced plans to expand its operations in Central & Eastern Europe. CHEP will extend its existing pallets business – currently in 23 European countries – to cover seven additional countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia in the Balkans and the three Baltic countries of [...]

CHEP Supports the St. James Cathedral School Second Annual Pumpkin Patch

CHEP, the world’s leading pallet and container pooling company, is supporting the Annual Pumpkin Patch at St. James Cathedral School with pallets and other help for the second year in a row. The pumpkin patch, which is open through October 30, 2011, is the primary fundraising activity to purchase new computers and offer specialty classes [...]

Okray Family Farms Stays with CHEP Pallet Pool Program

Okray Family Farms, Inc., a grower/shipper of potatoes, corn, snap beans, peas, cranberries and soy, today announced it has renewed its contract with CHEP, an industry leader in pallet and container pooling solutions. Okray Family Farms uses CHEP pallets to ship its OK brand and store-label produce from farms in central Wisconsin to supermarkets, wholesalers [...]

Pallet industry David tries to slay Goliath

(Reuters) – Most of us only care what they hold, but for David Lee shipping pallets are the prize. “People refer to them as necessary evils and I think that’s sad,” said Lee, 62, the CEO of fast-growing Yonkers, New York-based Peco Pallet Inc, which rents wooden pallets used by consumer products makers to move [...]

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