Atlanta-based cold-storage giant Americold announces $1.7B acquisition
Source: Atlanta Business Chronicle Atlanta-based cold storage giant Americold Realty Trust said Tuesday it will buy privately held Agro Merchants Group, the fourth largest temperature-controlled warehouse company globally, for $1.74 billion. Americold (NYSE: COLD) is the world’s largest publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition and development of temperature-controlled warehouses. Agro is the […]
Amazon opens its first Georgia ‘robotics fulfillment center’ and two other facilities
Source: Atlanta Business Journal Amazon has taken the next step of its Peach State expansion, opening three new facilities across Georgia, including its first robotics fulfillment center in the state. Amazon said operations have begun at a new 640,000-square-foot robotics fulfillment center in Gwinnett County, as well as a 1 million-square-foot Coweta County facility that will […]