Late last year we ran several ads stating that Becker Logistics is growing and that we were looking to bring on new people to work with us. You can view the first of these ads by clicking here. In these ads, we also said that we were planning on opening four new offices in 2019, which was quite a substantial goal considering that at the time we only had five offices. Well, we are happy to say that we have reached the goal that we set forward of opening 4 new offices this year, which brings us to a total of 9 offices.
The first office that we opened this year was the Irving, Texas office. Irving is located in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, it is a booming town full of culture and, more importantly, is the 2nd largest logistics hub in the nation, which is why we chose it as the location of our 6th office. Our Irving office is managed by Lance Roberts who has many years of experience in the logistics industry and was a perfect fit to run this branch. The branch officially opened on January 1st, 2019 in a temporary office space until it was moved to a permeant location on April 1st, 2019. The office has been running great and is exceeding the expectations that were put in place for it. They have hit important KPIs and branch manager Lance Roberts has since been nominated to chair the TIA Food Safety Advisory Committee. We look forward to seeing where the team is able to bring the branch; we think it will be somewhere great.
