February, 2022
Newsletter
THE SMART MOVE.
Ohio Logistics’ Growth Continues
With Major Investment Acquisition in New York
Aerial view ofrecently acquired Horseheads Southern Tier Logistics Center
If you traveled back in time to June of 1988, Business Park in Bovvling Green, we currently you would find a new business in Findlay, OH have two warehouses totaling 300,000 sq. ft. workin out of a 40,000 sq. ft. warehouse with room to ecpand to an addiüonal 600,000 called indlay’s Tall Timbers Distribution sq. ft., including a 100,000 sq. ft. spec building Center. Chuck Bills, the General Manager, scheduled to be built this year. As we did with did everything necessary to take care of his Findlay’s Tall Timbers Industrial Park, we are customers. He made sales calls, answered the actively collaborating with BG’s business park phone, filled out paperwork, lifted boxes, fixed leadership to invigorate the economic developstuffthat was broken, drove the förklift, loaded ment of the Woodbridge Business Park to trucks, did the accounting, etc, He had to, help it reach its fullest potential, because for the first three months of operation he was the lone employee of Findlay’s Tall In Fostoria we have 45 acres of land where Timbers Distribution Center, now known as we’ve already completed a 100,000 sq, ft. spec
Ohio Logistics, building that is scheduled to open in April,
This acreage will allow us to build an addiIt’s been almost 34 years since the company tional 200,000 sq, ft. for a total of 300,000 started, and our growth has been noteworthy, sq, ft. ofwarehouse space at this location, At In Findlay, OH alone we currently have four our Building 1 location in Fostoria, we just buildings totaling over 1.3 million square feet purchased an additional 52 acres of land alof state-of-the-art warehouse space, We’ve lowing us to expand the current building from also expanded into other Ohio regions that 600,000 sq, ft. to 750,000 sq, ft. making this proved promising from a business point of the single largest building we own, This exview, including, Bellevue, Bowling Green, pansion is planned for 2022, Combined with Columbus, Fostoria, Ottawa, and Trenton. Our Building 2, our total square footage of wareoperations in Bowling Green and Fostoria house space in Fostoria will be over 960,000 are great examples of our most recent growth sq, ft. by the end of the year, over the last four years.
Over the years, Ohio Logistics has also ex-
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OHIO LOGISTICS Warehousing &Transportation
Findlay, OH 45840 (419) 4254906
Fou r Locations
Fostoria, OH 44830 (419) 436-8210
Three Locations
Northwood, OH 43619 (419) 425-4906 Ottawa, OH 45875 (419) 523-3722 Willard, OH aa890 (419) 425-4906 Columbus, OH 43228 (614) 876-8611 Bellevue, OH 44811 (419) 379-1046 Bowling Green, OH 43402 (419) 326-5513 Trenton, OH 45067 (513) 714-3420
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Interesting Ohio History
Catherine Bach of Warren, OH is an American actress best known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard. Playing both the main female protagonist and the sex symbol on the show, Bach asked ifshe muld bring her own outfit, which was a homemade T-shirt, a pair of cut-off denim shorts and high heels. The tight denim shorts later became colloquially known as “Daisy Dukes.’ Bach posed as Daisy Dukefor a poster, which sold 5 million copies and gained unexpected admiration from Nancy Reagan and other staff after Bach visited The White House.
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In this issue:
Ohio Logistics Growth 1
Ohio Logistics Growth (cont.) 2 Perfect Attendance 3 Meet Mike Spradlin 4
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anded o erations into other states including, KY PA, IL, and MS, doing our best from a business perspective to meet our customers’ needs utilizing an efficient supply chain. In fact, companywide, we currently have over 400 Associates operating over 6 million sq. ft. of space in 24 locations serving six states.
Through our Southern Tier Division in New York, we are partnering with local economic development offices and industry to re-develop the former site known as The Holding Point, now known as Horseheads Southern Tier Logistics Center (HOST). Work has already begun with the demolition of existing buildings to make room for a 461,000 sq. ft. warehouse to be constructed yet this year. This acquired site, consisting of 187 acres, will be capable of developing 2,000,000 sq. ft. of warehousing and manufacturing space.
Southern Tier Logistics’ Mitchell Wolff, formerly of Host, sums up this recent acquisition nicely:
For decades, this iconicProperty, situated on apProximately 185 acres andaffedionately known locally as the “Holding Point” was an integral part ofthe economic Chemung County, New York, Southern Tier ofNew York, community. Tenants such as Corning, IBM, Dupont, etc. employed hundreds oflocal residents. HOSTs basic in-place infrastructure is remarkable including the 1-86 ConnectorProject, environmentally clean, 4+ miles ofrail/intermodal exclusively servicedby Norjölk Southern Railways, close airportProximity, ultra-high-speed internet, certified truck scales, Foreign Trade Zone credentials imminent, high water/electric capacity, etc. makes it extremely attractivePr top tier corporate companies. To execute theplan requires our operationalexpertise in continuing our mission to oversee andsecure tenants in the construction ofnew, Class A warehouse structures and servicing them with our 3PLprocesses thereby recreating a robustjob creation Platform.
Constructing new ClassA warehouses willattract top tier companies, naturally creating a significantjob basefocusing on local, regional, and out-of-state, candidates. 7he new construction will not be “speculative based”but rather Pursuant to bonafide long term lease contracts that we are actively securing. 7hese newjobs will migrate towards the advancement ofhousing andcommercialdevelopment. 7his was welldocumentedpreviously at HOSTby energy related companies in anticipation o being approved, however, the i erence is that there they hadshort term commitments and was single commodity driven (naturalgas). We will be diverse and long-term driven with industry leaders that appreciate the economic impact their presence has in the ffected communities.
Our growth has been very rewarding! Without our outstanding Associates and customers, we wouldn’t be where we are today. And for that, we are indeed fortunate and thankful, BG under construction
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Bowling Green Warehouse, 300,000 sq. ft. sofar!
Fostoria #3 Warehouse, 100,000 sq.ft. (with roomfor 200,000 sq.ft. expansion
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Tech Talk If you look at the cable it is marked with the
USB symbol on one side. This is not just By Ohio Logistics’ ITManager, Mike Spradlin marketing; if you are inserting the cable horizontally then the symbol will face up. If you Welcome back to “Tech Talk,” your inside are inserting it vertically, the symbol will face source för all things IT, As most of you know, you. Now you know. the handheld scanner is at the core of our business, Over the last several months you Fact: Americans alone send 18 billion texts have probably heard, or seen, communications every day, 541 billion texts every month, and about “Android” versus “Windows” scanners, trillion texts every year,
In this edition ofTech Talk I will explain why we currently have both platforms in production, The simple answer is that Microsoft is no longer supporting a Windows based mobile platform, formerly known as Windows CE, which is forcing us to migrate to the Android platfÖrm, This is a large undertaking and has required us to rewrite every scanner process in the organization to make them work on the Android scanners, We have a few locations that are already operating exclusively on the Android platform, but over the next several months we will be deploying more Android scanners in a warehouse near you.
Didyou know? USB cables are marked so you can insert them correctly the first time.
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- An MRB DRE or other time-phased system in which all time-phased data are accumulated into time periods, or buckets. If the period of accumulation is one week, then the system is said to have weekly buckets.
- A manufacturing process strategy where the trigger to begin manufacture ofa product is an actual customer order or release rather than a market forecast. For make-to-order products, more than 20% of the value added takes place after the receipt of the order or release, and all necessary design and process documentaäon is available at the äme of order receipt.
- A warehouse that stores raw materials. Goods from different suppliers are picked, sorted, staged, or sequenced at the warehouse to assemble plant orders.
February Dates of Importance:
February 2 – Groundhog Day
February 4 – World Cancer Day February 9 – National Pizza Day
February 12 – Lincoln’s Birthday
February 13 – Super Bowl [VI
February 14 – Valentine’s Day
February 21 – Presidents Day
February 22 Washington’s Bday
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Meet Mike Spradlin OL: Are you a sports fan? Who do you follow?
Mike has been with the company since April Mike: Yes, I am a huge sports fan. I love all of 2021 working as our IT Manager. Keep sports, but my favorite is college football. And, reading to learn more about Mike and his by far, my favorite team is the Buckeyes. I life outside of work. can’t reall fm \ think explain I was why, bom but with I am it in a passionatemy DNA OSU
OL: How do you like to spend your free time? Mike: Ideally, in one of two places. Either on the golf course or the ski slopes. I am not very good at either, but I like to try. If I can’t golf or ski, I enjoy woodworking. I have a small shop in my garage where I spend a lot of time. OL: Which local hole-in-the-wall restaurant would you recommend to someone visiting from out of town? What should they order? Mike: For sure, The Fern. And they must get the meatloaf sandwich. Love it or hate it, you have to try it once. But the fried bologna sandWich is pretty solid also.
OL: Tell us something about yourself that most people don’t know.
Mike: I lived in Hawaii for several years and worked as a bartender on a dinner ship. Every night we would take a load of vacationers out of Pearl Harbor and anchor offWaikiki beach, put on a little show, serve dinner and watch the sun set. It was in Hawaii where I got my OL: Tell us about your family, start in IT putting in telephone systems on Mike: There isn’t much to tell. My family is the Pearl Harbor Navy base. very small. I have a son that is 31 and lives in Las Vegas and a daughter that is 28 and lives in Columbus. I also have a sister that lives in Arlington.
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