Discounter Lidl has announced plans for what is being touted as 'Europe's biggest distribution centre' in Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
The facility, which will stretch to 71,800 square metres, will supply around 150 stores in central Spain. Around €70 million has been invested in the project.
"It will be the largest distribution centre in Europe, as well as being the most technologically advanced and the most sustainable," said Lidl property director Javier Suarez, at the laying of the site's foundation stone last week.
The new facility is being developed on the site of a former Electrolux factory, which shut in 2011, and Lidl has pledged to 'preferentially' consider job applications from former site employees for the new business.
Lidl has 530 outlets in Spain, 58 of which are located in Madrid and environs. The discounter entered Spain for the first time in 1994.
© 2015 European Supermarket Magazine – your source for the latest retail news. Article by Stephen Wynne-Jones.
