The Winning Group and Winning family were joined by New South Wales Premier, Chris Minns, Mirvac Group CEO, Campbell Hanan and over 100 guests to officially open its new Winning Services distribution centre (DC) in Kemps Creek this morning.
The new Kemps Creek DC, located at Mirvac’s Aspect Precinct, incorporates a 66,610 square metre warehouse, 76 docks and a dedicated recycling area to service Appliances Online, Winnings, Andoo, and Home Clearance, and over 20 third party logistics (3PL) partners.
The DC is targeting a 6-Star Green Star Rating from the Green Building Council of Australia and has created an additional 40 jobs with 23 roles currently advertised across warehousing, delivery and installation.
The dedicated recycling area services the group’s free take-back and recycling program. Over the past quarter since moving to Kemps Creek, the program has already achieved an average diversion from landfill of 84% for non-metal materials including packaging, mattresses and timber crates, plus an average of 234 tonnes of scrap metal recycling per month.
Winning Group CEO, John Winning said, “Our investment in this new world-class distribution centre – the largest in our group’s history – supports solid growth in both Appliances Online and Winnings, as well as our 3PL business, Winning Services, which enjoys a world-leading NPS score of over 80.
“Our new distribution centre will continue to provide customers with our exceptional last-mile customer experience, which is unmatched for big and bulky goods in Australia. Through the Winning Services network we can provide free next day delivery to 95% of the Australian population, same day delivery in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane of big and bulky goods and free removal and recycling of old products through reverse logistics.
“As a century-old, fourth-generation Australian family business, we continue to innovate the entire shopping experience and we were honoured to be joined by New South Wales Premier, Chris Minns and Mirvac Group CEO, Campbell Hanan to officially launch our new facility.”
Winning Services general manager, Harry Boileau said, “We’re incredibly proud of our new Kemps Creek DC, which allows our business and team to continue to provide our unique and unmatched last mile logistics of big and bulky goods. With the addition of our new Kemps Creek DC, Winning Services now boasts 185,000 square metres of logistics capacity across Australia and New Zealand.
“Our new DC has created new job opportunities for warehouse workers, drivers, offsiders, plumbers and electricians, which we are looking to fill prior to Christmas. The dedicated recycling area in Kemps Creek allows us to continue to support our industry-leading recycling program of old appliances, mattresses and product packaging, which helps keep communities clean and prevents e-waste going into landfill.
“Our sustainability initiatives, along with our industry-leading NPS score of over 80, underpin Winning Services ‘Legendary Care’ and our mission to create the best experiences in the world, for the world – for our people, customers, communities, and the planet.”
Mirvac group CEO and managing director, Campbell Hanan said Aspect is forecast to provide over 500 jobs during construction and 1,200 operational jobs over the course of its development.
“The delivery of this second warehouse at Aspect for Winning Group has contributed critical construction and operational jobs as well as investment to boost the economic development of Western Sydney – supporting living and working in this community where around one in nine Australians currently reside. Aspect is also targeting net positive certification for embodied carbon,” he said.
“We are delighted to welcome Winning Group, a fourth-generation Australian business to their largest ever distribution centre, the size of nine football fields, which is already underpinning growth for their business.”
Feature image: Harry Boileau, Sally Boileau, Andrew Cousins, Kerrie Winning, Chris Harrison, John Winning Snr, Bill Winning (Winning Group) & NSW Premier, Chris Minns.
Andrew Cousins & Chris Harrison are two of the longest serving NSW DC team members at Winning Group – Photo Credit: Chris Hung.