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Jerónimo Martins to Launch New Logistics Centre in Poceirão in 2018
27 September 2017
Pedro Soares dos Santos points to “the beginning of the year” as the project’s starting date.
Pedro Soares dos Santos, chairman of Jerónimo Martins, announced today that the group would move forward with the construction of a logistics centre in the region of Poceirão, similar to the one inaugurated today in Alfena, Valongo.
“We bought a plot of land in Poceirão, where we will build a [logistics centre] like [Alfena],” Pedro Soares dos Santos told reporters during the inauguration of the group’s largest and most modern logistics centre – in Portugal and abroad – in an investment of 75 million euros.
Pedro Soares dos Santos points out that the project will start at “the beginning of the year.”
The centre opened today occupies an area of 100,000 square meters and will create 750 jobs, of which 450 are direct, and 300 are indirect.
The new enterprise will concentrate operations that were previously dispersed in other small centres in the northern region.
The Jerónimo Martins group operates in the food distribution sector in Portugal under the brands Pingo Doce (supermarkets) and Recheio (cash & carry).
Original Story: Jornal Econômico – Ricardo Santos Ferreira
Translation: Richard Turner