History
- Southshore Companies
In 1978, Abe Kirshenbaum and his sons, David and Ted, purchased a vacant
fruit canning facility in St. Joseph, Michigan. This was the beginning of the
Southshore Companies. Southshore today is a privately held and managed group
of integrated third party logistics companies providing warehousing
logistics,
fulfillment, transportation
services and real estate development and
leasing to its customers. The Southshore Companies have expanded beyond the former
fruit canning facility in St. Joseph to include locations in Benton Harbor
and White Pigeon, Michigan; Elkhart, Indiana; Dayton, Ohio and East Hartford,
Connecticut. The Southshore Companies control approximately 2 million square
feet of commercial warehouse and office space and specialize in supply chain logistics.
The Southshore Companies have experienced strong and steady growth
since 1978. Southshore only accepts customer work that we are capable
of performing at an exceptional level of effectiveness, efficiency
and timeliness. In addition, Southshore continues to expand its supply chain logistics
capabilities in response to dynamic, escalating customer demands. The
Southshore Companies financial stability and strength are enhanced
by multi-dimensional customer and asset diversification. Southshore's
revenue is distributed and balanced across business segments by customer
size, public and private customers, customer geographic location and
customer risk class.
Southshore is proud to maintain long-term relationships with many
large, multinational and federal government customers; however, Southshore
itself is a small, focused organization. Our compact central organization
structure, supported and complimented by independent location management,
allows Southshore to quickly deliver outstanding service, creative
strategic solutions, effective operations problem solving, and final
decision making to our customers. Southshore's owner-managers are immediately
available to every Southshore customer requiring a timely decision.
Southshore's family traditions of trust, reliability and urgency continue
to impact our daily business decisions. Southshore balances the flexibility
of a family managed company with the discipline and technology required
to meet customer needs in demanding industries such as automotive,
food processing and computer manufacturing.
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