Friday, August 13, 2010

Aero Delivery Purchases Saskatoon Fresh Pack!

Aero Delivery Ltd., an affiliate company of the Yanke Group of Companies is pleased to announce that it has acquired the land, buildings and operations of Saskatoon Fresh Pack and Fresh Pack Ice Makers in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The facility is located at 1701 16th Street West and consists of 10 acres of land, 90,000 sq ft of refrigerated storage and the existing business operations of the ice and freezer businesses.

Brett Marcoux of Aero Delivery stated “this is a great opportunity for both Aero Delivery and the Yanke Group. Saskatoon Fresh Pack is a cold storage warehouse with a small transportation component while Aero Delivery is a food transportation carrier with a small warehouse component, so this amalgamation is complimentary to both sides. As well Fresh Pack Ice has a distribution network that follows many of the same points that Aero services so there is a lot of potential to consolidate operations and freight”.

This purchase will give Aero Delivery the ability to offer full HACCP registered facilities and improved technologies to its customers, and will give Fresh Pack a greater transportation network for existing and future customers. Together Aero Delivery and Fresh Pack will now have the flexibility to provide a wide range of services to existing and future customers.

The Yanke Group of Companies is an international transportation company providing transportation solutions in partnership with its customers across North America and around the globe. Yanke operates 5 different business units that provide a “one stop” source of transportation services. They include: Yanke Specialized Road Services, Yanke Multimodal Services, Yanke Supply Chain Services, Yanke Global Logistics Services, and Aero Delivery.

Yanke offers a wide range of service options including freight forwarding, air cargo, international steamship line containers, inland rail, domestic double stack rail, full truckload dry van services, temperature controlled services, and local warehousing.