CHEP grows Heinz pallet business

Heinz ketchup will now be delivered to supermarkets on CHEP blue Euro pallets. Heinz was already using CHEP pallets to transport a number of its products.

"Our partnership with CHEP in Germany has demonstrated that using their pallets results in a simplified, faster and above all more environmentally-friendly logistics operation," said Jens Plachetka, md, HJ Heinz GmbH. "This is why we are pleased to have extended our cooperation with CHEP." The environment was a key factor in the decision by Heinz to switch to CHEP.

"Thanks to CHEP's sophisticated pooling management system, the expensive re-location of exchange pallets and lorries on the road only partially loaded with empty pallets damaging the environment, are now a thing of the past," adds Plachetka.

The European contract in place between CHEP and Heinz represents 1 million pallet movements each year, with Germany the largest market with 200,000 movements.