NORTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL GIVES LIDL GO AHEAD FOR NEW MULTI-MILLION POUND SCOTTISH HQ

• North Lanarkshire Council planning committee grant planning permission for new Scottish Regional Distribution Centre (RDC)
• Lidl to invest in new RDC at Eurocentral
• New RDC will enable supermarket to create up to 360 new jobs
• Construction to commence within 6 months

23rd February 2017: Lidl UK, one of Britain’s fastest growing supermarkets, has today been given the go ahead by North Lanarkshire Council for a brand new Regional Distribution Centre at Eurocentral in North Lanarkshire.

The food retailer, which became the first supermarket to pay its employees the real Living Wage, is planning a multi-million pound investment in the relocation of its 400 strong workforce from Livingston to the new site at Eurocentral, located off Coddington Crescent, which the company secured in 2016.

The planned 58,000 m² highly sustainable RDC will replace Lidl UK’s current Scottish headquarters, which the business originally moved into in 1996 and has since outgrown. This will enable the supermarket to provide enhanced support for the supermarket’s 92 stores up and down the country (from Kirkwall to Stranraer), as well as create more local job opportunities and allow for further expansion and investment in Scotland.

Ross Millar, Managing Director for Lidl in Scotland, commented: “We have worked very closely with North Lanarkshire Council since 2016 and are greatly encouraged by the committee’s decision at today's committee meeting.

“Our new RDC not only signifies an investment in our own infrastructure and workforce, but also highlights our wider ambitions within Scotland as Lidl UK continues to experience incredible growth.”

“Our expansion could not be possible without being able to recruit the right people and I am equally proud that we were the first supermarket to pay the Living Wage rate, as set by the Living Wage Foundation.”

The news follows the opening of a brand new Lidl distribution centre in Southampton in November 2016, which created more than 400 permanent jobs, along with further commitments to open new warehouses in Wednesbury, Exeter, Bolton and Doncaster which will create an additional 2,000 jobs combined.

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