Waitrose is in talks to take a bespoke shed for its online business at the former Guinness Brewery at Park Royal in west London.
The supermarket chain is understood to have targeted Park Royal for a 150,000 sq ft facility to service its dot.com business, with talks focusing on the SEGRO-owned Origin site.
While it conducts its search, Waitrose has taken a short-term, two-year lease on the 190,000 sq?ft Acton Service Building in Victoria Road, NW10, from parent company John Lewis. Cushman & Wakefield and Aspect have been marketing the shed for several months.
Elsewhere, rival supermarket group Tesco has gone under offer to take over the former Courage Brewery in Reading, Berkshire.
Tesco is understood to be paying around £40m for the site, where it plans a rail-connected distribution centre similar to its 840,000 sq?ft shed at ProLogis’s DIRFT II in Daventry, Northamptonshire, which is scheduled to open this summer.
Colliers International acts for Waitrose; Tesco is represented by Lambert Smith Hampton.
l Sainsbury’s has appointed developers Bericote, ProLogis and First Industrial to run the rule over its distribution network to identify development opportunities. The retailer said that the company planned to increase its floor space in the UK so it needed to evaluate its distribution network. C&W advises Sainsbury’s.
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