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| S&S staff, executives and others gathered in the new distribution space. photo: Daniel J. Gorrin |
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Simon & Schuster has completed the expansion of its Riverside Distribution Center in Delran, N.J., and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday. The expansion adds 200,000 square feet of space, bringing the total to 712,000 square feet. The facility ships to accounts in the U.S., Canada and worldwide for S&S and its 50 distribution clients, which include Andrews McMeel Publishing, Gallup Press, Kaplan Publishing, Reader's Digest and VIZ Media.
"This beautiful, state-of-the-art expansion to our Distribution Center facility is the best statement we could possibly make about the overall importance of the distribution client business to Simon & Schuster," said president and CEO Carolyn Reidy. "We have committed significant resources and capital to this facility in order to grow our family of clients, and are well-positioned to provide the world-class service for which we are known to both our current and future clients."
The Delran facility, in southern New Jersey, is the primary warehouse, distribution and customer service center for S&S's North American publishing operations. The facility services over 2,000 new Simon & Schuster titles annually from 39,000 SKUs, with an ability to ship more than 150 million units annually. The high bay/high density design of the addition allows the company to double pallet storage capacity.