Why Castellini – Castellini Company

The Partner Most Logistics Companies Can't Be.

Our roots are in produce. Our business is your supply chain. And where we sit, geographically, operationally, and historically, is a position no one else holds.

Here’s what that means in practice.

Built on Produce Expertise

Not a Competitive Threat

Fully Integrated Model

Asset Based Stability

Positioned to Optimize the Entire Chain

The Midwest Hub Advantage

You Can't Outsource Geography.

The Midwest is where East Coast distribution begins and national inbound converges. For cold chain logistics, our location is a structural advantage that either works for your supply chain or against it.

Castellini’s Midwest facility is positioned to serve as a true hub for national perishable distribution. That means:

Inbound — handled.

We receive and stage products from California, Texas, Florida and other national origins, giving shippers a reliable Midwest staging point with direct distribution reach into East Coast and Midwest markets.

Consistent distribution lanes.

Our distribution footprint is built around the routes that matter most for perishable product moving across the eastern half of the country, with the asset-based fleet to run them on time, every time.

Cincinnati’s position as a historic rail terminal made it a distribution center a hundred years ago. The infrastructure has changed. The logic hasn’t.

The Proof Is in the Partnership.

Restaurant Procurement Supplier

A Restaurant Procurement Supplier needed one cold chain partner that could manage both cooler and frozen products with the speed perishable goods demand. Castellini combined multi-temperature storage, case picking, and high-velocity fulfillment under one roof, helping the program scale to more than 2,000 pallets.

American Food Brand

An American Food Brand needed a smarter way to deliver fresh-cut produce to major retailers across the Midwest and Northeast. By serving as its cross-dock and last-mile distribution hub, Castellini reduced long-haul complexity, improved delivery reliability, and created more efficient regional routes.

Direct To Consumer Food Brand

Castellini helped a Direct To Consumer Food Brand turn a critical fulfillment bottleneck into a scalable pack-out operation. In just four weeks, Castellini launched the program and continued expanding alongside the brand, now supporting more than 100,000 boxes and up to 1.2 million meals per week.

Vertical Farming Company

Castellini helped a growth-stage vertical farming company simplify logistics, reduce freight costs, and expand cold storage support as demand increased. What began as LTL consolidation became a full-service logistics partnership built around helping the customer focus on fresh produce innovation.

Berry Supplier

A major berry supplier needed a more efficient way to manage seasonal inventory across growing regions and major retail customers. As their Midwest consolidation hub, Castellini helped reduce truck complexity, improve quality checks, and keep multi-SKU berry loads moving year-round.

Tomato Grower

A tomato grower needed a faster, lower-risk way to serve major retailers across the Midwest and East Coast. By operating as their outsourced Midwest distribution center, Castellini helped reduce lead times by 2–3 days, improve product freshness, and eliminate the capital risk of building a dedicated facility.

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Food Safety Built Into the Process

In perishable supply chains, food safety cannot be a separate checklist. It has to be part of the operation from the moment product arrives.

Castellini’s food safety program is built on SQF standards and a HACCP-based approach, supported by continuous improvement practices including Lean/Six Sigma. Every product is inspected by our Quality Assurance Team upon arrival, and our operations follow applicable USDA and FDA recommendations.
From inspection and handling to storage, routing, and delivery, our food safety practices are designed to protect product integrity, reduce risk, and help customers move with confidence.

Fewer Miles. Longer Shelf Life. Better Outcomes.

Sustainability in produce logistics isn’t a brand statement, it’s a math problem. The more efficiently perishable product moves through the supply chain, the longer it lasts, the less is wasted, and the fewer resources are consumed getting it to the end consumer.

Castellini’s approach to sustainability is rooted in that logic, not in certification language.

Hub efficiency reduces miles.
A centralized Midwest distribution model means product moves through fewer legs between origin and destination. Fewer legs mean fewer emissions, less fuel consumption, and less handling. These outcomes benefit the environment and the product simultaneously.
Shelf life is the sustainability metric that matters most in perishable logistics.
Every hour of shelf life that's lost in the supply chain is a resource that was consumed to produce something that won't reach a consumer. Our proactive quality monitoring, precision cold storage, and controlled-environment ripening programs are designed to protect that clock, maximizing usable life from origin to delivery.
Asset-based operations mean optimized routes, not available ones.
Because we own our fleet and manage our own routing, we optimize lanes for efficiency, not just availability. Consolidated loads, predictable cadence, and minimal empty miles are built into how we operate, not added on as a sustainability initiative.

We’re running a cold chain operation that takes seriously the environmental cost of doing it inefficiently, and building the infrastructure to do it better.

Why Castellini Works