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The PASCAL ChronicleENGINEERING CLUBOur visit to Laιko group this year, as the Engineering Club, wasone of the Cub’s highlights. We found it interesting to learn howthese hundreds of different types of products arrive every dayinto supermarkets where we buy them and then take them toour houses. At this distribution centre that almost six containersfull of products arrive every single day ready to be transferredto supermarkets and kiosks all over Cyprus.Mr. Marios Efthymiou along with his team gave us a briefpresentation about how this Group works and how itco-operates with Cosmos trading Ltd. to maximize their effort indistributing their products all over the country in order for us tobe able to enjoy a variety of products at their best quality.After the presentation we had the chance withMr. Efthymiou to go for a tour inside the facilities of LaikoGroup. We saw how the whole company was working withcomplex machines and flexible cars especially designed to fitinto the corridors of the warehouse. Inside the warehouse,hundreds of shelves were placed one next to the other in thesafest and most efficient way.The shelves and the positions that they are placed werespecially designed by engineers in order to be resistant toearthquakes and other disasters. This was mandatory becauseeach shelf carries tens of tones of pallets full of products thatare ready to be sold into the market. Also, each corridor hasabout a hundred shelves. So it is very important for the workerswho are working there to search and find each product quicklyand efficiently. So, each shelf has its own unique address whichmakes the workers’ lives much easier by spotting any product that is wanted at any time with theirspecially designed mini computers which record all the data.To have a warehouse full of food and drink is a great responsibility and requires great skills and abilityin order to manipulate such large quantities. This is because as we all know, every product has anexpiration date. So, products that come into the warehouse have to leave it as fast as possible. If the dateof a product expires then the product is officially useless. If this incident happens every day then thecompany will shut down due to great losses in their budget.At the end of the presentation and the tour inside of Laiko Group warehouse, our patience wasrewarded and we were provided with refreshments by the company’s team. We were offered refreshmentsand also a bag full of Laiko products to take home by the LaikoGroup staff. It was a memorable visit.Victoras Kiteos 6IB34