PETCO’s new DC, which will serve the southeastern United States, will be located in a 506,240 square foot space at Braselton Business Park in Barrow County.

“We are very pleased to be locating our new facility in Braselton in support of our mission to help pet parents take great care of their pets by providing them with our range of products and services,” said Jim Myers, CEO of PETCO. “Our new distribution center will serve more than 200 PETCO stores across the southern part of the country and will be a great addition to the 15 existing PETCO stores already located throughout Georgia.”

PETCO DCs play an integral part in the logistics supply chain process by handling merchandise from the suppliers and moving it to the stores.

“Companies continue to select metro Atlanta as the location for their large distribution operations, advancing our reputation as one of the world’s top logistics hubs,” said Bob Pertierra vice president of logistics industry development for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. “Atlanta is one of the world’s largest inland ports and a global logistics gateway; our strategic location in the southeast continues to makes us attractive to these types of facilities.”

Metro Atlanta has the fifth-largest concentration of logistics companies and employment in the country, with more than 103,000 jobs. More than 90 percent of the top 25 third-party logistics service providers have operations in Atlanta.

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