Walmart Canada finalized a deal to purchase two privately held Canadian logistics companies on July 1. The companies in question are trucking company Translogic Express Dedicated Inc. and SCM, a distribution centre operator.
Both companies have worked with Walmart Canada for 20 years. According to Andrew Pelletier, vice president of corporate affairs and sustainability at Walmart Canada, company employees will be unaffected by the deal, although they will now be considered employees of Walmart.
Walmart Canada is in the works to complete 35 supercentres in 2014, though Pelletier is using these acquisitions to focus on distribution and transportation growth.
“What it’s really going to allow us to do, by having this in-house as part of Walmart, is to take the best practices these two great companies have already helped us master and shore those with the rest of our international operation and make it easier for us to take best practices from our international operations around the world and bring them to Canada,” says Pelletier. “By bringing them in-house, it just makes this process easier to do.”
