“The logistics center in Chitila will integrate the activity of the depot in Brasov, which will be closed on December 31,” company officials said.
The new platform created by extending the existing depot in Chitila will enhance services in the company’s direct distribution division. The center is leased and investments in extending the depot exceeded EUR300,000.
The opening of the Chitila Logistics Center marks the end of the project aimed at reorganizing the logistics infrastructure of Europharm Distributie, which targets to enhance the long-term competitiveness of its logistics services.
The logistics center in Chitila stretches onto nearly 6,400 sqm.
Europharm Distributie, part of British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline, is one of Romania’s leading pharmaceutical wholesalers.
On December 12, GSK said it has reached the second phase of the process to select a buyer for its factory in Brasov, which is due to end in the first quarter of 2014. Mid-2013, GSK said it would be seeking a buyer for its factory in Brasov in the next six months but will start shutdown procedures, which will end mid-2015, unless it manages to sell it.
In 1996, GSK bought 65% in Romania’s Europharm, a company then owned by businessman Mihai Miron and which came with a medicine production unit in Brasov. In 2003 GSK bought the remaining 35% stake in Europharm.