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Logistics Management Is a Centerpiece for Polk County's Growing Economy

Polk County is Florida’s recognized center for distribution companies. Within a 100-mile radius reside 8.5 million people, the largest population base in the Southeastern United States.
Many of the nation’s largest retail companies have distribution centers in Polk County, including Coca-Cola Enterprises, Haverty’s, Home Depot Supply, JC Penney, Lowe’s, Publix Super Markets, Rooms To Go, Sherwin Williams, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, W.S. Baddcock Corporation and Advanced Discount Auto Parts.
Other large distribution centers include Ford Motor Company, Cardinal Pharmaceutical, Colorado Boxed Beef, LeanSCS, McKesson Pharmaceutical, Southern Wine and Spirits, USF Distribution, Commercial Carrier Corporation, FedEx and Saddle Creek Corporation.
CSX Railroad has announced its intentions to build an integrated logistics center in Winter Haven which will handle container loads from throughout the United States. The railroad transportation company’s facility will be an intermodal terminal and a business park with warehousing and manufacturing space. This truck, rail and warehousing hub will expand the company’s capacity to transfer and store consumer goods. The integrated logistics center is expected to employ more than 2,000 people working in three million square feet of warehouse space, 1.5 million square feet of industrial space and 500,000 square feet of office space.
From Central Florida’s Polk County, companies have easy access to Orlando and Tampa International Airports and to deep water ports, including Tampa, Manatee, Everglades, Jacksonville and Miami.
Supply Chain Management, Logistics, RFID, Information Systems for Logistics, Procurement and Supply Management are taught at Polk Community College through the Supply Chain Management Institute and the County’s two technical training centers teach truck driver training, fork lift operation and picking. The new University of South Florida Polytechnic campus to be built on Interstate 4 in 2010 will also feature courses on Logistics Management.
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