History

ACT Fulfillment LLC began as a division of All Cartage Transportation in 1995 primarily pre-packing merchandise for clothing and shoe vendors shipping into Costco Wholesale. We began our operation in 5,000 square feet of fenced off warehouse space and a small office. As we developed our relationships with these manufacturers and parallel importers our business and space requirements grew exponentially, so in the first 3-4 years of providing fulfillment services we found ourselves in 2 or 3 buildings at any given time. In early 1999, we decided that we needed a single building to grow our business; so we made what we considered at the time a huge move and signed a 3 year lease on 60,000 square feet of warehouse space in the Ontario, CA area. Although it seemed very large at the time our business continued to grow with current and new customers. A big win for us in 2000 was to become the West Coast Distribution Center for Burlington Coat Factory. Once again we found ourselves in a second building to manage the space needs of our customers. Two short years later our lease was up, so my partner and I purchased a new 104,000 square foot building directly across from the Ontario, CA International Airport. In 7 years we had managed growth of 20% to 25% each year and moved in and out of 6 different facilities. My thoughts at this time were that this would be the last move I would ever make. Little did I know.

Burlington Coat Factory grew as did our other customers and within 18 months we were once again looking to expand the space we managed. After securing short term leases on a variety of different buildings we were able to secure 288,000 square feet in the building right next door. Our intention was to have Burlington Coat Factory occupy the majority of the space and use the balance for merchandise that didn’t move as quickly as the rest of our business. Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in life. Not long after we signed the lease on the building next door, we received the call from Burlington informing us that they had decided to open their own facility on the West Coast. We knew this could happen someday but really were not expecting it right at that moment.

That said, you pick yourself up, brush yourself off and plan your next move. Luckily for us Burlington needed time to find their new facility which gave us time to bring in more business. We leased out the building we owned and consolidated our business into the 288,000 square feet. Even though Burlington Coat Factory had represented 70% of our gross revenue in 2005 and 41% in 2006 we were able to grow the company revenues in 2007 by 12.5%. As we approach 2009 we are planning an expansion of up to 150,000 square feet to keep pace with new and existing customer needs.

ACT Fulfillment LLC continues to grow and prosper because of the customers we have and the employees we have been fortunate to attract. We hope that you will give us the opportunity to serve you as well.