Campbell Soup Building $44M Distribution Center in Ohio

Campbell Soup Company and DHL Supply Chain held a ground-breaking ceremony in Findlay, OH on Tuesday to mark the beginning of construction on a 700,000-sq-ft distribution center there that will serve e-commerce customers.

Upon completion next Spring, the $44 million facility will be operated by DHL Supply Chain and employ some 220 workers.

Campbell Soup said the site’s location near some of the company’s existing factories and the CSX North Baltimore freight railyard were factors in the decision to build the distribution center in Findlay.

“Because of the transportation lanes available here, we can distribute (products) nationwide via truck or rail right from here,” Campbell Soup Company Vice President of Supply Chain Mark Cacciatore told the Findlay Courier.

The distribution center will handle Campbell’s soups, Swanson brand broth and stock, Prego and Plum Organics canned products, Pace Foods, and V8 beverages from plants in Napoleon, OH, Maxton, NC, Paris, TX, and Toronto, Canada, according to the Courier’s report.

Campbell’s site will also help the firm test e-commerce fulfillment processes.

“This is still kind of an area that we and other manufacturing companies are trying to find out how do you serve e-commerce efficiently and profitably,” said Cacciatore in the newspaper’s article. “That’s something we will be experimenting with.”

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