Company expands to new complex
J Rattray and Son, the South Island’s leading independent grocery and catering wholesaler, opens its new central city Cash and Carry complex today.
Situated at 284-290 Tuam Street (formerly Skellerup Sales), this all new complex offers complete drive-through and undercover car parking for 70 vehicles.
J Rattray and Son has been a part of the South Island grocery trade for more than 100 years and now has branches in Invercargill, Alexandra, Dunedin, Timaru and Nelson, as well as Christchurch.
Besides this new central city location, Rattrays has two other Cash and Carry oulets in Papanui (95 Sawyers Arms Road) and Sockburn (286 Main South Road). Six months ago Rattrays contracted Downer Construction to completely demolish the existing building on the site and erect an all new Cash and Carry warehouse complex specifically designed to meet the growing needs
of a very large and diversified wholesale trade customer base. The General Manager of J Rattray and Son, Mr Bob Stewart, said that since the acquisition of Dingwall and Paulger 15 months
ago Rattrays had been planning a transfer of three of its existing Cash and Carry sites in Ferry Road, Manchester Street and Lichfield Street to this new site. “This complex has been specifically designed to meet our customers’ needs in terms of being able to purchase products at the very best possible price and at the same time receiving service unequalled anywhere in the grocery industry,” he says. “We have enjoyed tremendous growth in our Cash and Carry business over the past two to three years in both grocery and catering. However, in order to increase our share of what is a very competitive market and be able to continue to provide products at excellent prices, coupled with first-class service, a facility such as this one was inevitable. We felt that to develop our competitiveness in the food industry as market leaders we needed to be the first in the South Island to offer this type of facility.”
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Press, 24 October 1989, Page 18
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