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	The APEX Group Warehousing/Logistics We Lift You Higher! Happy New Year!
12/30/08	Volume 1, Number 6
In This Issue · The Apex Group · Food Service Company Building Distribution Center in Pennsylvania · Food Manufacturer Opening Plant in Virginia · Food Packaging Company Investing $25M in North Carolina · Airline Flies 747 Powered by Biofuel · Find out more www.apexlogisticsgroup.com Contact Us http://www.apexlogisticsgroup.com daniel@apexlogisticsgroup.com Apex Logistics Corporate Headquarters: 3191 South Valley Street Suite #210 Salt Lake City, Utah 84109 Toll-Free: 1-800-768-8695	The Apex Group Who is Apex WAREHOUSING Apex Warehousing is a freight handling service provider that specializes in warehouse related fulfillment. Apex Warehousing, provides dependable lumping service, pallet service, picking, loading, cleaning, hostling, and anything related to warehouse functionality. No matter what your growing challenges might be, we are prepared, trained and ready to handle every step along the way. The Apex Group. We lift you higher. Who is Apex LOGISTICS Apex Logistics is a nationwide logistics service provider that specializes in transportation related fulfillment logistical services. Apex Logistics provides reliable and on time LTL service, Truckload, rail, vessel, airfreight, and parcel delivery services, and anything related to transportation efficiency. No matter what your growing challenges might be, we are prepared, trained and ready to handle every step along the way. The Apex Group. We lift you higher. Food Service Company Building Distribution Center in Pennsylvania Gordon Food Service, a provider of food distribution services and the operator of the GFS Marketplace retail stores, will build a 150,000-square-foot distribution center in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania governor’s office. At least 100 new jobs are planned with the project, which will be the company’s 11th distribution center in the United States and its first in Pennsylvania. “Our presence in Schuylkill County will provide us growth opportunity while enabling us to offer greater geographic coverage to our many multi-unit customers with operations in this area,” says Jim Gordon, Gordon Food Service president. Preparation is underway for construction to begin at the Schuylkill Highridge Business Park; the facility is expected to be operational by late 2009. Gordon Food Services has been offered a $1.4 million incentive package that includes $990,000 in grants, along with job training assistance and tax credits contingent on job creation. Food Manufacturer Opening Plant in Virginia Sabra Dipping Company, a manufacturer of specialized food products, will open a manufacturing facility in Chesterfield County, Virginia, according to the Virginia governor’s office. The project is expected to create 260 new jobs at full operations in 2010. New York-headquartered Sabra, a joint venture between the Strauss Group and PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America divisions, manufacturers and sells hummus and vegetable dips. “We are projecting growth and planning exciting innovation,” says Ronen Zohar, Sabra’s CEO. “We are very optimistic about our company’s plans for Chesterfield County and look forward to breaking ground and setting into the community.” Incentives offered to the company include a $350,000 grant from the state, along with training assistance and enterprise zone tax credits, as well as local incentives that the governor’s office did not quantify. Food Packaging Company Investing $25M in North Carolina Dopaco, Inc., a supplier of specialty paperboard packaging for the food industry, will invest $25.3 million to expand its operations in Kinston, North Carolina, according to the North Carolina governor’s office. The company plans to create 123 new jobs over the next three years at an average annual wage of $46,610 plus benefits. Dopaco supplies food trays, paper cups, pizza boxes, and similar products for take-out and fast-food customers, including McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy’s. “We have always had a good working relationship with the state of North Carolina, and the continued support of the state will assist us with expanding our operation, servicing our customers, and creating new jobs in Lenoir County,” says Robert L. Cauffman, Dopaco’s president. The state has offered the company a $200,000 grant that will be matched by local agencies. Airline Flies 747 Powered by Biofuel Air New Zealand has successfully completed a two-hour flight of a passenger jet that gets some of its power from biofuel. The Associated Press reports that the airline tested a Boeing 747-400 airplane that ran with one engine fueled by a 50–50 blend of standard A1 jet fuel and a blend of oil made from jatropha plants. The jatropha plant, a Mexican plant that grows in warm climates, reportedly has a lower freezing point than jet fuel, making it practical for aviation, and is already being used to produce biodiesel. An Air New Zealand spokesperson, quoted by the AP, says that the fuel is not yet being produced on a commercial scale, so the airline cannot speculate on whether the biofuel will be less expensive than jet fuel, but says they expect the blend to be cost competitive. The airline says it hopes that by 2013, 10 percent of its flights will be at least partially powered by biofuels. We lift you higher.