Construction is underway on Lidl's new Scottish Regional Distribution Centre (RDC) at EuroCentral in Lanarkshire.

When complete, the facility will become Lidl's largest RDC in Britain.

The first stage of steel frame construction was launched and is expected to take 12 weeks to complete. The steel frame will comprise of 4,000 tonnes of steel.

Winvic Construction will deliver the project on the 51 acre site for winter 2019.

Neil Bannerman, Operations Manager for Winvic, said: "We are delighted to be working with Lidl again to build its largest regional distribution warehouse so far in Britain, illustrating how Winvic and its team members are seasoned in building client relationships and delivering first class schemes time and again."

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Jason Sandie, Team Manager Goods In, added: "I've been with Lidl in Scotland for over 20 years, first working in stores and then moving to the warehouse. In that time we have expanded from serving 20 Scottish stores to 95, and the extra space in the new RDC will be very much welcomed. I'm really looking forward to it, and it's very exciting to see the scale and working areas in the new building."

Jason Sandie, Denise Farquar, Carol Barclay will relocate from the current Livingston warehouse along with 400 other colleagues.

"There's lots of work ahead but we're all very excited about the new Distribution Centre. The facility will help us make sure that Lidl stores across the country can continue to serve the increasing demand from our customers. It's great to see the building begin to take form, which is down to the hard work of many people across the business. We're all very much looking forward to moving into this high spec facility next year," concluded Lidl UK's Managing Director for Scotland, Ross Millar.

(CM/MH)