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One of Africa’ s largest branded food service franchisor, Famous Brands, which has several household brands in its stable, continues its relationship with Goscor Lift Truck Company with the recent delivery of Crown and Doosan materials handling equipment( MHE) for its new warehouse in Longmeadow, Edenvale, east of Johannesburg.
Famous Brands, continues its relationship with Goscor Lift Truck Company with the recent delivery of Crown and Doosan materials handling equipment
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Gavin Welsh, Famous Brands’ logistics executive for the Gauteng region’ s Centre of Excellence says that the company reduced the primary activity at its Midrand facility and ring-fenced it at the new Longmeadow warehouse.
Famous Brands recently took delivery of 10 units for the new facility including: two Doosan BR16JW reach trucks; one Crown SC6040 1.8 three-wheel electric counter balance forklift; one Crown WT3020 2.0 ride on powered pallet truck and six Crown PTH-50 Pallet Jacks.
Welsh says that it’ s not only Goscor’ s product that is world class.“ Their willingness to be part of the preparation of the facility’ s MHE, their general conduct during the sale and the quality of their after sales service all match the quality of the product,” he says.
“ We expect that the new facility will handle a through put in the region of 500 pallets per day delivering to six depots: Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Midrand, Nelspruit, Pinetown, and Port Elizabeth. It is a 24-hour operation and to facilitate this Goscor has supplied additional batteries to ensure uptime around the clock.
Goscor sales manager Ronald Ryan says the Famous Brand’ s logistics management and its operation is as professional as anything anywhere.“ Working with Gavin is a privilege and the teamwork between the two companies is an example of how productive the client / supplier relationship can be,” he concludes.
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