NBA player Steph Curry's foundation is working with Lineage to distribute food to millions of at-risk students from the logistics company's Oakland warehouse by chloesorvino
Greg Lehmkuhl thought of when he faced the threat of a widespread shortage of workers for his $2 billion food logistics business. But as coronavirus fears were racing to a fevered pitch he knew that his company was being thrust into the center of the crisis. He would need an army of workers to handle it.
Curry, as it turns out, was out of a job. The cancellation of the NBA season on March 11 left him idling and thousands of arena workers in need of a paycheck as well, so the Golden State Warriors star turned his attention to Eat. Learn. Play., the charity he formed with his wifelast year that he wanted to mobilize to feed students in need. Lehmkuhl found out Curry was looking for help and a pandemic partnership was born.
“We consider our workers to be first responders,” says Lehmkuhl, 47. “We are all running at light-speed to make sure that the shelves stay stocked. That's super important for keeping civil unrest from happening. It's feeding people, but it's also helping America stay calm because it's terrifying to walk into Walmart and see empty shelves.”
Since then, they have made over 40 acquisitions, the most recent being the $1 billion purchase of Preferred Freezer Services, Lineage’s next-biggest competitor, in November. They also raised $700 million in 2018 from Stonepeak Partners and D1 Capital, and used some of the capital to build a facility in Sunnyvale, Texas. Opened roughly a month, it is now the world’s most advanced automated warehousing and food distribution facility, according to the company.
In California, where Lineage is seeing the biggest spike in demand, it has already reassigned some of these employees and hired more factory workers. Around Los Angeles, primarily in the Inland Empire, factory hirings increased 30% in the first week of March overall. More than 40 workers from other facilities around the country moved into hourly shifts at Lineage’s two distribution centers there. In one facility in the area, Lineage shipped out 25.
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