Orgill Plans Sixth Distribution Facility

Orgill Inc. of Memphis, Tenn., has announced plans to begin constructing its sixth distribution center in the second quarter of 2007. The hardlines distribution company says, while a site for the new distribution center has not been finalized, the facility will serve its customers in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Southern Arkansas, so it will be located in the respective region.

Orgill says it anticipates the more than 500,000-square-foot facility will be servicing customers sometime during the first quarter of 2008.

The company says this new facility will help increase efficiencies to customers and take some of the distribution burden off its facilities in Memphis, Tenn., and Tifton, Ga., which currently service that area. It will mark the first new distribution center since the opening of its fifth in Hurricane, Utah, in 2005.