Congratulations to our partners in Kansas City, Kansas on the announcement that Overstock.com, one of the world’s largest online home goods and furniture retailers, will open a new distribution center. The company has leased a 517,000-sq.-ft. facility at 5300 Kansas Avenue, which will begin outbound order fulfillment operations in October and will eventually expand operations to include returns processing. Overstock expects that the Kansas City warehouse will create more than 100 jobs for the local community within the next two years.
The addition of the strategically positioned Kansas City warehouse allows Overstock the ability to offer two-day ground shipping to more than 99% of customers in the contiguous United States.
The Kansas City Area Development Council was proud to partner with the following organizations in attracting Overstock.com to KC:
- State of Kansas
- Kansas Department of Commerce
- Wyandotte County Economic Development Council
- Board of Public Utilities
- Newmark Grubb Zimmer
- QPS Employment
- Focus Workforce Management
- Express Employment Professionals
- IMKO Workforce Solutions
- KC SmartPort
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About Overstock.com
Overstock.com, Inc. Common Shares (NASDAQ:OSTK) / Series A Preferred (Medici Ventures’ tZERO platform: OSTKP) / Series B Preferred (OTCQX:OSTBP) is an online retailer based in Salt Lake City, Utah that sells a broad range of products at low prices, including furniture, décor, rugs, bedding, and home improvement. In addition to home goods, Overstock.com offers a variety of products including jewelry, electronics, apparel, and more, as well as a marketplace providing customers access to millions of products from third-party sellers. Additional stores include Pet Adoptions and Worldstock.com dedicated to selling artisan-crafted products from around the world. Forbes ranked Overstock in its list of the Top 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in 2014. Overstock regularly posts information about the company and other related matters under Investor Relations on its website, http://www.overstock.com.
About KC SmartPort
KC SmartPort is the authority on logistics opportunities in the 18-county, bi-state Kansas City region. A non-profit economic development organization, KC SmartPort promotes and enhances the Kansas City region’s status as a leading North American logistics hub. KC SmartPort is affiliated with the Kansas City Area Development Council, the regional economic development organization for the 18-county Kansas City metro. www.KCSmartPort.com