Institutional
Wholesale Co. is a family-owned, independent
food supply company headquartered in Cookville,
Tennessee. Located just outside Nashville,
the company had operated three separate warehouses
— one for dry items, a cooler facility
and a freezer — all at different locations.
IWC had outgrown each of these facilities
due to sheer volume and SKU growth and wanted
to consolidate their operations in one state-of-the-art
location.
By
touring several Tippmann facilities, IWC executives
discovered the value in doing business with
a construction company that also had years
of experience as an owner-operator of refrigerated
warehouses. Further, they were impressed with
Tippmann's Fast-Track construction process,
which allowed for the completion of their
project within five months.
The
resulting 96,000 square foot facility includes
dry, refrigeration and frozen storage space
with a centrally located operations core.
Not only did the unique design work well with
the lay of the land for truck staging, it
produced much greater efficiency through reduced
travel distance. In addition, the design allows
for future expansion on IWC's attractive 21-acre
site.
