Leicestershire distribution centre gets ready to send out over 55,000 chocolate eggs this Easter
Posted by nathan lloyd | Published: 04/04/2017
As people get set to celebrate Easter, Central England Co-operative is ready to make sure stores are stocked full of chocolate treats for customers this year.
Colleagues at the Society’s Food Distribution Centre, in Leicester, have been working hard since all the way back on Christmas Eve to ensure shelves will be properly stocked with everything from chocolate eggs to hot cross buns.
Teams have been working hard to shift over 25,000 cases of Cadbury Mini Eggs and a whopping 55,000 cases of large chocolate eggs.
Colleagues have also been handling thousands of Fairtrade Easter products ranging from specialist wine to cakes and chocolate.
Lee Dundee, Distribution Centre Manager, said: “We always want to make sure our customers enjoy the best Easter possible and our team has been working hard to ensure that is the case.”
Central England Co-operative customers really do have a sweet tooth as thousands of Easter eggs are ready to be sold just months after the team at the Food
Distribution Centre shifted 61,000 tubs of Celebrations and nearly 81,000 tubs and boxes of Miniature Heroes during the Christmas period.
Although many people will only just be turning their thoughts to Easter, the team at the Food Distribution Centre, which at 120,000 sq ft equals the size of six Olympic swimming pools, were already working on all things Easter from Christmas Eve.
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Photo caption: Warehouse operatives Richard Williamson helps Central England Co-operative make Easter egg-cellent for its customers.
Photo caption: Warehouse operatives Robert Edwards helps Central England Co-operative make Easter egg-cellent for its customers.
About Central England Co-operative
Central England Co-operative is one of the largest independent retail co-operative societies in the UK. It is a modern, forward-looking organisation employing over 8,000 staff, with projected gross sales of £958million for 2016/17. The Society recently celebrated being named Leading Co-operative of the Year 2016 by Co-operatives UK. The Society’s principal areas of activity are food, funeral services, and property. Central England Co-operative has more than 430 trading outlets across 16 counties including; West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. The Society has an ambitious food store development programme for 2017.
Central England Co-operative is proud of its reputation for ethical business practices and corporate responsibility. It is a member of Business in the Community, the membership organisation that stands for responsible business, and has also won many business awards for excellence. The Society supports a number of charities including Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children and invests a percentage of its trading profit into local communities.
Becoming a member of Central England Co-operative offers a whole host of benefits ranging from collecting points every time you spend in store to earn a share of the profits, access to members activities and community initiatives including the Community Dividend Fund, which hands out grants of up to £5,000 to charities and good causes across the Society’s trading estate.
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