Coca-Cola Amatil To Build New Factory Out at Airport Industrial Complex

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Pity about the transit links though

Well I am all for decent jobs coming to South Auckland and the economic benefits they will give. This news piece from Auckland Airport yesterday certainly caught my attention.

From Auckland Airport:

Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand to build manufacturing facility at Auckland Airport’s Business Park

16 June 2015

Coca–Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ), the company that makes and sells Coca–Cola drinks and other leading beverages in New Zealand, is establishing a manufacturing operation at The Landing Business Park at Auckland Airport

The move will see Auckland Airport develop a purpose-built, high-tech, 12,000sqm warehouse to accommodate an addition to CCANZ’s manufacturing footprint.

Chris Litchfield, Managing Director of CCANZ, says the company is excited to partner with Auckland Airport on the development of this new facility.

“Auckland Airport has the ability to deliver a product which meets our specific requirements.  We need to consolidate a number of operations into one, meaning that we require a location that ticks all the boxes in terms of connectivity, security and accessible amenities,” says Mr Litchfield.

“We also value the investment that Auckland Airport has outlaid to develop the area into a world-class business park.  CCANZ is committed to producing the best quality beverages and this new facility at Auckland Airport will enable us to continue to achieve this and complements our existing manufacturing operations.”

Mark Thomson, Auckland Airport’s general manager property, says, “The move by CCANZ to Auckland Airport highlights the quality of our real estate products and our ability to tailor solutions to unique customer requirements.”

“We are focused on creating a business environment that caters to a wide range of users.  Our extensive land-holdings allow Auckland Airport to tailor bespoke solutions, not only for traditional logistics activities but also for technology users and selected manufacturers, such as CCANZ,” continues Mr Thomson.

“What remains constant in all of our developments is our emphasis on creating quality buildings within a comprehensively planned and world-class environment, as well as providing outstanding amenity for our customers and their staff.”

“CCANZ is one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific with a portfolio that consists of several leading household brands.  We are thrilled that CCANZ has entrusted Auckland Airport as its property partner,” finishes Mr Thomson.

Further Information

About The Landing Business Park at Auckland Airport

New Zealand’s leading industrial business park offers a world of limitless opportunity.  World-class facilities and infrastructure set amongst expansive landscaped open spaces define The Landing – here you can design and build facilities that are uniquely you.

About Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand

Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ) is a fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturer which employs more than one-thousand people located at several manufacturing locations across the country. It produces, markets and sells a number of its own beverage brands, such as L&P and Pump, and is the authorised manufacturer and distributor of The Coca-Cola Company’s products in New Zealand. It has responsibility for a variety of beverage brands ranging from soft drinks to water, sports and energy drinks, juices, fruit products, coffee and premium beers.

It is part of the ASX-listed Coca-Cola Amatil Group, which is one of the top five Coca-Cola bottlers in the world, and also has operations in Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

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Source: http://www.aucklandairport.co.nz/Corporate/NewsAndMedia/AllMediaReleases/Coca-Cola-Amatil-New-Zealand-to-build-manufacturing-facility-at-Auckland-Airports-Business-Park.aspx

Great to see continued job opportunities in South Auckland. Pity the transport links are absolutely crap out there and the only way to really get there is by car.

Maybe Auckland Transport need to get cracking with better buses until Auckland Airport gets cracking with the Airport Rail Line once the City Rail Link is complete (2025).

Just lookit all that prudent sensible economic credibility

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Selling below valuation in Auckland? Okay rather suspicious but then again I have seen properties sell in Papakura either AT valuation level or well above it. It depends on the circumstances the new owner might have.

Also going to put the comment made over at DimPost that caught my attention as well:

We’re not actually in the middle of a property boom, are we, Danyl? We’re in the middle of a housing crisis and the Government needs to sell houses in order to free up some cash for their plans to build a lot more houses in order to dampen down demand. Work & Income are paying out record amounts of accommodation supplements because of high rents, so surely part of the solution is to make sure that low income families are able to buy their first home with the help of Government incentives. I also think that we can’t rule out the possibility of implementing rent controls. So, currently when you rent a house, the landlord can legally only put the rent up by a certain percentage each year. Yet if you move out and a new tenant comes in, the rent can go up exponentially. This means that a small wooden house in Christchurch can be rented out for $360 per week by a couple that have been there for ten years and when their renewal comes around in November their rent will be increased to $380 per week; their friends who have just moved in to an identical property across the road are paying $480 per week and when they have their renewal in one years’ time their rent will be going up to $505 per week. This is a loophole in the system that needs to change. People say that Warrant of Fitness checks on all rental properties wouldn’t work because rents would go up but the fact of the matter is that rents are already capped in New Zealand for existing tenants and the other loophole that could see rents rise, new tenants, simply needs to be closed with the use of a National register of investment properties. This register would also ensure that foreigners couldn’t buy an unlimited amount of investment properties as they can now. Nick Smith was right to assert that, while foreign ownership only makes up around eight percent of the properties in Auckland, in an overheated market this is very detrimental to that market.

Comment by Daniel Lang — June 15, 2015 @ 1:36 pm