Global temperature-controlled logistics and cold-storage real estate operator
Americold operates 230+ refrigerated facilities totaling 1.4 billion cubic feet across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. The company is scaling logistics and operations headcount aggressively—128 logistics and 93 operations hires active—while pursuing preventive and predictive maintenance programs and energy efficiency initiatives. Tech adoption (Oracle Cloud, EDI, WMS implementations) and pain-point patterns (reducing maintenance costs, minimizing downtime, preventing equipment failures) reflect a shift toward operational intelligence and asset reliability across a geographically distributed, capital-intensive footprint.
Notable leadership hires: Food Safety Director
Americold is a public company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with over 120 years of operational history. The business provides temperature-controlled warehousing, integrated transportation, and supply-chain optimization services to food producers, processors, distributors, and retailers. The facility network spans nine countries and supports end-to-end cold-chain visibility, inventory management, and value-added logistics services. The company employs 10,001+ staff and is actively hiring across logistics, operations, and engineering roles in the US, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, UK, Canada, and Spain.
Americold operates 230+ temperature-controlled facilities across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America, totaling approximately 1.4 billion refrigerated cubic feet.
Americold's stack includes SQL, Python, Power BI, Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS, Azure, Oracle, WMS, TMS, Dayforce, UKG Workforce Central, and Palo Alto Networks. The company is adopting Oracle Cloud and EDI.
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