Americold

About Americold

Americold is a temperature-controlled logistics real estate and value-added services company located on Sovereign Road in London, Ontario. It serves food producers, processors, distributors, retailers, and foodservice providers through a network of automated and conventional facilities. The company offers cold chain services including USDA inspections, protein packaging, labeling, repacking, bagging, cartonizing, and fumigation. Retail and distribution services include case picking, break packing, multi-vendor consolidation, cross-docking, and reverse logistics. Other food handling services include slatting, deslatting, tempering, and retail display configuration. Americold also provides order fulfillment for conventional and e-commerce needs, port operations, drayage, and import inspections. The company's history dates back to 1903 when Ernest Woodruff merged three cold storage warehouses to create the Atlantic Ice & Coal Company. The business adopted the name Americold in 1997 and became the largest temperature-controlled warehousing and distribution services provider in the world following the acquisition of Versacold in 2010.