Opening new Depot Forest in partnership with Delhaize

Distrilog is particularly pleased to join Delhaize in reaching a new milestone in the Belgian supermarket chain's e-commerce story. On Monday, the brand new e-commerce distribution centre in Forest was officially inaugurated. From this site, Distrilog will provide full logistics services, as in the existing centre in Puurs, with which we have been building a successful partnership for many years.

Thanks to this expansion, Delhaize is doubling its capacity for online orders to as many as 50,000 deliveries per week. A necessary step to continue to meet the strongly increasing customer demand. For Distrilog, this means a further intensification of our role as reliable logistics partner within a fast-growing segment.

The new centre in Vorst, located on the former Lipton site next to Vorst-Zuid station, has excellent strategic accessibility, both for staff and for our logistics flows. For Delhaize, this is an environment where efficiency, accessibility and scalability come together.

From Forest, Delhaize will be able to serve customers in the Brussels region, among others, faster and with fewer kilometres. This not only contributes to better customer satisfaction, but also to a lower ecological footprint - a value that both Delhaize and Distrilog hold dear.

At full operational capacity, around 200 Distrilog workers will be active on the site. They take care of picking and processing orders day and night, which are then delivered via home delivery or to one of 120 pick-up points. Delhaize's full range of products will be available at the centre, allowing a quick response to any customer demand.

Delhaize's e-commerce business continues to grow year-on-year, with double-digit growth rates since the corona period. Since Delhaize made picking up online orders completely free of charge, we saw an additional 20 per cent increase in demand. That evolution confirms that investing in e-commerce and logistics is not a choice, but a necessity.

After our successful collaboration in Puurs, we as Distrilog are particularly proud that we can also help build the future of e-commerce at Delhaize in Vorst. We are looking forward to this next phase, in which we will again be able to deploy our expertise, flexibility and customer-oriented approach to maximum effect.