CEVA Logistics launches solution for Danone Dairy in Turkey
20 May 2009 - 10:45 CET
CEVA will provide chilled warehousing facility and a bespoke milk collection serviceIstanbul, Turkey, 20 May 2009 CEVA Logistics, one of the world's leading supply chain companies, today announced the signing of a €3 million agreement with Danone Tikveşli A.Ş.- the Danone dairy business in Turkey. Danone, one of the world's leading companies in the health food sector, has been operating in the Turkish dairy sector since 1998 with Danone Tikveşli A.Ş. The three year contract will see CEVA supply various services, including providing and running a chilled warehouse in Istanbul, as well as running Danone Tikveşli existing chilled warehouse in Ankara.
For already two years CEVA has been providing a special service for Danone Tikveşli collecting raw milk from 500 different farms on a daily basis and delivering it to the customer's dairy factories which are located in Gonen and Luleburgaz. CEVA is also undertaking the necessary quality control of the dairy product upon collection. The project is unique due to the fact that the responsibility of the process has been assigned to a single logistics provider.
Aslan Uzun, CEVA Logistics General Manager in Turkey & the Balkans commented, ‘CEVA's operational approach with its high focus on productivity and existing experience in FMCG, was key for us being selected by Danone Tikveşli. We are extremely pleased to have achieved the trust of such an important company."
For more information please contact:
Murat Kurtay
BD Director - Turkey
+90 216 633 44 44
murat.kurtay@cevalogistics.com
About Danone and Danone Tikveşli A.Ş.:
Danone is a Fortune 500 company and one of the most successful healthy food companies in the world. Its mission is to bring health through tasty, nutritious and affordable food and beverage products to as many people as possible. Fulfilling this mission is a major contributor to the Groupe's continuous fast growth. Danone with 160 plants and around 80,000 employees has a presence in all five continents and over 120 countries. In 2008, Danone recorded € 15.2 billion sales. Danone enjoys leading positions on healthy food in four businesses: fresh dairy products (n°1 worldwide), waters (n° 2 on the packaged water market), baby nutrition (n°2 worldwide) and medical nutrition. In Turkey, Danone has been operating in dairy business since 1998 with Danone Tikveşli A.Ş. with a wide range of products under the brands of Danone, Danino, Danette, Activia, Danone Doğal, Tikveşli, Birtat. Danone works with nearly 1000 employees, with an experienced supplier network embracing 10.000 farmers and 1000 other suppliers, a nation-wide cold-chain distribution network composed of 800 fleet and 300 distributors servicing daily to over 100.000 sales points in all 81 cities, produces locally in its 2 factories.
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CEVA Logistics is a leading global supply chain management company. We provide end-to-end design, implementation and operational solutions in contract logistics and freight management to large and medium-sized national and multinational companies. CEVA employs circa 50,000 people and runs an extensive global network with facilities in over 100 countries. For the year ending 31 December 2008, the Group reported revenues of €6.3bn. For more information, please visit www.cevalogistics.com.
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