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Today’s edition of The Business Journal should just about be hitting mailboxes across the Central Valley, and one of the stories looks at how Ulta’s new Fresno e-commerce distribution center is faring.
It’s an important time for the cosmetics retailer, which nearly a year ago opened the Fresno distribution center. It recently reported very encouraging fourth-quarter earnings, and Fresno has a part in that.
Fun fact: 21 percent of Ulta’s e-commerce orders come from Fresno.
And more evidence that sometimes business is a zero-sum game, Ulta this week should just about finish closing an e-commerce distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona.
The company has maintained that the new Fresno center and Phoenix’s closure are not related. But it’s definitely something to ponder.
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