canadaplus.com Moving to New, State-of-the-Art Facility

Growth Drives Expansion

The Farrow Group is expanding its’ local footprint by building a new office and warehouse facility which will house canadaplus.com and RAF Express Inc.

canadaplus.com provides international parcel and LTL services, shipment staging, consolidation, customs clearance, delivery, automated returns processing, pick & pack and fulfillment. RAF Express Inc. provides expedited deliveries in the metro-Detroit and Windsor area.

The new 30,000 square foot facility will be built on 5 acres of land in LaSalle, ON (just west of Windsor, ON), a location which is well positioned to take advantage of the new border crossing (bridge), to be built to service the Detroit/Windsor border at Brighton Beach.

The facility represents a $2.5 million dollar investment and will be state-of-the-art. It will include 6 truck loading bays, one drive-in bay, and feature a water sprinkler fire security system, natural lighting via 8 skylights, environmentally-friendly high energy T5 lighting, and computer controlled access. There will be 4,000 feet of office space.

The building is designed with expansion in mind, and can be doubled in size. Approximately 50 employees will relocate to the new facility in the Fall of 2008.

When complete, the facilities will double existing capacity through a second conveyor system and improve the efficiency of shipment processing as well as direct loading to trailers.

Growth of the business is driving the expansion, as much as 40% year over year. This growth is the result of increasing volume of U.S. Retailer and Business-to-business shipments to Canada, the strength of Canada specific marketing plans, along with the favourable exchange rate. Several existing and a number of new customers reflect this growth, and compliments similar growth at canadaplus.com’s Delta, British Columbia location.

canadaplus.com assists companies in a wide range of fields reach their business goals by using our vast experience, knowledge and information technology solutions, as well as supply chain management capabilities that are adaptable, versatile and focused in servicing customer's needs.

The address for the facility will be:

canadaplus.com 6220 Westar Drive LaSalle, ON N9J 0B5

RAF Express Inc. 6220 Westar Drive LaSalle ON N9J 0B5

For further information, please contact:

Michael Meixner, M.Sc., P.Log., C.C.S. Director, International Logistics for Russell A. Farrow Limited and canadaplus.com

2001 Huron Church Road Windsor, ON Canada N9C 2L6

Email: or

(519) 252-7775 x.214 (office) (519) 966-1749 (fax)