New Jersey-based RLS Logistics announced Wednesday it is now among the nation’s top 10 providers of temperature-controlled storage space and logistics networks following two acquisitions. Through its affiliate RLS Partners it recently acquired Hutt Trucking and Logistics and Performance Cold Storage.
Financial terms of the transactions were not disclosed. Both companies were renamed with the RLS moniker, becoming RLS Hutt and RLS Performance.
Holland, Michigan-based Hutt Trucking offers cold...
One of the most active consolidators of cold chain facilities is a relatively new venture with old roots.
Founded in 1968, RLS Logistics started as a family-owned mushroom farm. It added a cold storage facility and then grew to include multiple facilities over time. Through a joint venture RLS Partners was formed with outside industry veterans a year and a half ago. The group has been actively rolling up family-owned cold chain warehouse and logistics providers since.
The need for...
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Cold chain third-party logistics provider RLS Logistics announced Thursday that Premier Refrigerated Warehouse has joined the network. The addition expands RLS’ footprint into the Texas Triangle region, Oklahoma and Arkansas, as well as other Southern states.
Premier Refrigerated Warehouse has been renamed RLS Premier and will soon be operating out of a new 200,000-square-foot facility with 28,000 frozen and refrigerated pallet positions south of Fort Worth, Texas. RLS Premier’s prior space...
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