Mercadona upgrades Guadix logistics hub

Mercadona said on April 27 that it upgraded its logistics hub in Guadix, Granada, as part of a broader investment across three Andalusian distribution centers. (granadahoy.com) The supermarket chain said it spent nearly €43 million in 2025 on improvements at Guadix, Antequera in Málaga, and Huévar del Aljarafe in Seville. Guadix is Mercadona’s only logistics center in Granada province. (granadahoy.com) Mercadona has operated in Guadix for more than a decade, and the site has become one of the company’s links between local suppliers and its store network. The company tied the latest work to supply efficiency and supplier relations. (granadahoy.com) The Guadix platform has been expanding in stages. In March 2023, Mercadona said it had already invested €24 million in a new 15,200-square-meter refrigerated-products warehouse there, a project that started in late 2022. (granadahoy.com) That refrigerated expansion followed an earlier €56 million investment completed in June 2021, according to Granada Hoy. The 2023 construction phase involved 50 contractors and was expected to support more than 500 jobs during the build. (granadahoy.com) Mercadona also moved to automate more of Guadix. WITRON said Mercadona awarded it a contract in late December 2023 to build a new 15,000-square-meter dry-goods distribution center at the site. (witron.de) WITRON said the automated facility was due to start operating in 2026, supplying more than 90 Mercadona stores with more than 4,000 items. The company said the system would be able to pick up to 120,600 cases a day. (witron.de) The Guadix complex has also been part of Mercadona’s energy push. In September 2023, Andalusian officials visited a 30,000-square-meter solar self-consumption plant at the site that they said was the largest of its kind in Granada province. (granadahoy.com) The regional government said that solar installation would cut the hub’s annual electricity consumption by 25% and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 680 tons in 2023. (granadahoy.com) For Mercadona, Guadix is no longer just an older provincial warehouse. It is becoming a larger, more automated and more energy-efficient node in the retailer’s southern Spain supply chain. (granadahoy.com) (witron.de)