Stord to double e-commerce fulfillment capacity in Kentucky

Stord, a supplier of turnkey e-commerce fulfillment services and logistics technology, has committed $40 cardinal implicit 5 to 10 years to grow and modernize its largest shipping center, located successful Hebron, Kentucky, to support up with increasing request for online shopping.

Stord gained ownership of the 520,000-square ft Hebron installation successful 2024 with the acquisition of Pitney Bowes’ e-commerce fulfillment business. The installation is the largest warehouse successful Stord’s web and ships much than 5 cardinal packages annually. It includes important clime power storage, a prime mezzanine with 120,000 quadrate feet of other space, pallet racking and robotic automation.

Atlanta-based Stord said Thursday it volition lease a 525,000 quadrate ft warehouse with 49 dock doors susceptible of offering a broad suite of value-added services for brands, including kit assembly and embroidery. The installation is located near  Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport, wherever Amazon and DHL Express person their superior U.S. aerial transport hubs and different freight airlines operate. The institution besides plans to outfit the gathering with automated handling equipment, proprietary AI-capable warehouse and proscription absorption systems, and different capabilities.

The existent Hebron fulfillment halfway is operated by much than 300 employees and 300 contractors. Stord said bid processing determination during the Black Friday-Cyber Monday play doubled twelvemonth implicit year.

Stord, which calls itself the Consumer Experience Company, was founded successful 2015. It supports hundreds of direct-to-consumer and B2B brands, including Seed Health, Native, Jolie (shower filter), Quip (oral wellness), True Classic and Goodr (sunglasses) with $10 cardinal successful yearly gross merchandise value. Stord says it delivered much than 30 cardinal packages to astir 11.5% of U.S. homes past year.

In 2025, Stord raised $200 cardinal successful funding, created a spouse web of extracurricular e-commerce exertion providers and acquired Ware2Go, an on-demand warehousing and fulfillment network, from UPS.

It precocious acquired Penny Black, a startup software-as-a-service solution that provides hyper-personalized post-purchase inserts to heighten a marque acquisition and make caller revenue. With Penny Black, brands tin easy supply circumstantial merchandise recommendations, unsocial coupon codes, customized videos, acquisition messages oregon much addressed to an idiosyncratic user based connected selling information and acquisition history. The personalized inserts are printed on-demand astatine battalion stations to springiness a differentiated acquisition erstwhile the lawsuit opens the box.