Shipper determines that CHEP pallet pooling has lower cost than alternative shipping platforms
DELRAY BEACH, FL -- Pero Family Farms Food Company, a leading grower/shipper of a wide range of vegetables, today announced it has moved almost all of its shipments to the CHEP pallet pooling system. The company is using CHEP pallets to transport Pero Family Farms and Freshwrap brand peppers, eggplant, zucchini, string beans and other commodities from facilities in Delray Beach, Omega, GA and Benton Harbor, MI to supermarkets, club stores, wholesalers and foodservice distributors in the Eastern half of the United States and Canada.
Pero Family Farms previously deployed a Akoya Pearl Jewelry combination of pallet exchange and limited use white wood pallets, but was encouraged to switch to CHEP by their customers. The company moved to CHEP after trying the system and seeing significant labor and storage improvements.
鈥淲e view the use of the CHEP pallet program as a best practice for anyone in the produce industry, providing us lower material and storage costs, the elimination of double handling and a series of environmental benefits,鈥?said Scott Seddon, Brand Manager of Pero Family Farms Food Company.
Seddon added that Pero Family Farms has made sustainability an on-going imperative for the company, and that CHEP pallets and reducing cardboard packaging are one of the highlights of the company鈥檚 efforts along with.
Based on third-party Life-Cycle Inventory Analysis findings, through its use of the CHEP pooling system as opposed to limited-use whitewood pallets, Pero Family Farms is reducing solid waste generation by more than 415,000 pounds each year, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions by 58 percent and saving enough energy to power about 34 homes with electricity.*
鈥淧ero Family Farms, like a lot of mid-sized produce companies, are initially attracted to the CHEP program at the urging of retail and wholesale customers, and then find a myriad of cost and productivity benefits from our pallets. We are committed to ensure that those benefits continue to reduce costs and boost productivity for both companies like Pero Family Farms and their trading partners,鈥?said Tim Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, CHEP USA.
Wholesale Coral Beads *Savings based on Life-Cycle Inventory Analysis of CHEP USA pallet pooling program conducted by Franklin Associates. The calculation is based on Franklin Associates, "Solid Waste Analysis And Life Cycle Inventory Of Pallet Systems", 2006 Update.
About Pero Family Farms Food Company
Pero Family Farms Food Company grows and markets Pero Family Farms and Freshwrap brand peppers, eggplant, zucchini, string beans and other commodities from facilities in Delray Beach, FL; Omega, GA and Benton Harbor, MI. The privately held company is based in Delray Beach and Turquoise Jewelry Wholesale employs more than 100 people.
About CHEP
CHEP is the global leader in pallet and container pooling services serving many of the world's largest companies. The company has more than 7Christian Louboutin Shoes
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