Success Stories

IKEA

Situation

At a critical time in IKEA's expansion throughout the wester United States and Canada, it needed to find the best location to build a odern distribution center, a location that offered low costs, a stable labor base, the ability to utilize multiple ports on the West Coast, efficient access to all its markets and sufficient land to accomodate future expansion.

Solution

The Tejon Ranch Commerce Center proved to be the best location, offering significant advantages in all of these critical areas.

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Famous Footwear

Operational Initiative

Previously, Famous Footwear shipped product imported through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to its Midwest distribution facilities, where shoes were sorted and shipped back to its Western retail locations. As business grew and it became apparent that this distribution model was a less efficient method ofserving the needs of customers in the West, Brown Shoe made the strategic decision to open a Western distribution center of rFamous Footwear.

The Tejon Solution

To assist in the search for the best location for a new distribution center, Brown Shoe enlisted the services of Clayco Inc., a design/build firm specializing in corporate real estate solutions. The Famous Footwear logistics team worked with Clayco executives to find a site that:

1. was strategically located in an area that could maximize in-bound and out-bound efficiencies
2. had a large pool of stable, qualified and motivaed employees
3. was competitively priced and offered opportunities for expansion

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