Today, Unilever EA inaugurated its newly constructed warehouse in Nairobi, Kenya, enabling the flexible handling of diverse health and beauty products in the East Africa region. The warehouse, which required a cumulative investment of Kshs 500 million, has been purposefully designed and equipped by Unilever.
The Managing Director of Unilever Kenya, Luck Ochieng, emphasized that the recently built state-of-the-art warehouse demonstrates the company’s commitment to growth in various aspects, including turnover, capacity, job creation, and community impact. Ochieng further stated that this investment serves as evidence of Unilever’s purpose to promote sustainable living as a common practice.
The warehouse is outfitted with cutting-edge automated storage and retrieval systems, incorporating the latest advancements, and offers an increased pallet capacity. This enables the company to efficiently store, process, and distribute its products.
“With the increasing demand for Unilever’s products in the recent times and limited warehousing capacity in the market, Unilever aims to close the gap between higher demand and shortage of supply through this new facility.” adds Luck.
Unilever’s Head of Supply Chain in Africa; Christian Byron affirmed on the importance of localizing raw and packaging materials in Unilever’s production processes. 70% of raw and packaging materials that Unilever uses for production in the continent are made in Africa which has positive impact on access and affordability of our products.”
“At Unilever, we continue to invest and strengthen our commitment to Kenya with the expansion of our facilities in the country. We strongly believe in the potential of this country and our consumers, and we are fully committed to playing a role in their respective growth stories.” he concludes
The state-of-the-art facility comprises a total surface area of just under 23,000 sqm and was constructed adhering to highest environmental standards.
