IN Brief:
- DX has opened a new Kettering site that combines fulfilment, freight, and final-mile operations.
- The facility sits on a seven-acre site with 86,000 sq ft of built space, including 79,000 sq ft of warehousing.
- Its East Midlands location reflects the continued pull of integrated multi-service hubs in the UK’s core logistics geography.
DX has opened a new distribution hub in Kettering, adding a larger operational base in the East Midlands and bringing several service lines under one roof. The site combines fulfilment, freight, and final-mile activity, giving the company a more integrated platform for contract logistics work in a part of the country where delivery density, motorway access, and labour availability still make scale matter.
The facility sits on a seven-acre site at Kettering Venture Park and includes 86,000 sq ft of built space, of which 79,000 sq ft is warehouse area. It is equipped with seven dock-level doors and six level-access doors, alongside office space, and is positioned between the M1 and A1(M), giving it efficient access into the wider Midlands, London, and northern corridors.
For DX, the logic is straightforward. Combining fulfilment, freight handling, and final-mile services in one building reduces handoffs between sites, shortens internal transfer time, and gives the operator more flexibility when volumes shift between storage, outbound handling, and delivery. That matters most in regional operations where customers increasingly want one provider to manage inventory, linehaul, and last-mile execution without building a chain of subcontracted interfaces between them.
The opening also lands at a time when modern logistics property in the Midlands remains central to network planning. Operators still want motorway-adjacent sites that can absorb more than one function, particularly where retail replenishment, parcel activity, and contract logistics are starting to overlap in the same regional footprints. A warehouse is no longer just storage capacity; it is often expected to behave as a fulfilment node, a freight platform, and a delivery launch point at once.
DX has framed the Kettering move as part of a broader expansion phase, following recent activity around acquisition and partnership development. More important than the corporate signalling, though, is the operational shape of the site itself. Multi-service facilities of this kind are becoming a more common answer to margin pressure, service compression, and the need to keep regional networks flexible without endlessly multiplying depots.
