Home meal kit maker HelloFresh has started work on a 400,000 sq ft distribution centre on the SmartParc food manufacturing campus in Derby.
The building – due to open in spring 2024 and called The Windmill – is being built near to an existing HelloFresh packing and distribution hub called The Orchard, which opened last year. A spokeswoman would not said how many jobs will be created, but smaller Orchard site is believed to have around 450 people working there. She said the will be a recruitment drive “in due course”.
When finished The Windmill will be the company’s most advanced distribution centre in terms of its technology and sustainability credentials – sharing its heating and cooling arrangements with other tenants on the business park in addition to making high use of wind, solar and green energy.
