Sustainable charging solution saving CO2 emissions and energy costs

CJ Lang and Son Ltd has a deep rooted history within food supply starting in 1919 when Charles J Lang began to work for his uncle’s grocery store in St Andrews. Since then, they have grown considerably, becoming part of the SPAR group back in the 1970’s to becoming one of today’s largest independent Scottish companies. With family still being at the heart of the business, Mr C.G. Lang's daughter, Mrs Joan Scott-Adie, is the Life President of the company, with immediate members of her family as Non-Executive Directors.

The sole SPAR wholesaler for Scotland and part of the broader SPAR UK network, CJ Lang and Son Ltd employs over 2,000 employees based across their 100 company owned stores across Scotland, their 180,000 sq. ft. multi-temperature distribution centre in Dundee and head office also based in Dundee.

A busy operation, delivering between 300,000 and 400,000 cases per week across different temperature regimes requires a logistics operation of 3 shifts per day over 24 hours, 6 days a week and their volume of cases shipped per week fluctuates depending on the season. This makes the need for their fleet of 40 reach trucks, counter balance, assembly trucks, loading trucks and powered pallet trucks from Toyota and BT to be readily available at all times vital to the smooth operation of their logistics process. Some of the MHE also used secondary batteries to keep the vehicle running during the shift operations.