One Frio acquires KOG Logistics, extending its Irish platform into the West

The Irish cold chain sits at the intersection of two of Europe’s most demanding food supply networks: a domestic market with concentrated retail customers and exacting service standards, and an export economy spanning dairy, meat, seafood, and prepared foods that depends on uninterrupted temperature integrity from production through to port. Operators serving this market need more than warehouse capacity. They need density, regulatory fluency, and the operational discipline to handle temperature-sensitive product at speed without compromising on traceability or compliance.

KOG has built exactly that capability. Operating from a single site in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, in the West of Ireland, KOG supports a blue-chip customer base across food manufacturing, retail, and foodservice, handling both raw materials inbound to production and finished goods outbound to retail and export channels. That dual-flow capability, raw materials in and finished goods out, is what makes KOG a genuine partner to its customers rather than simply a storage provider, and it reflects the kind of operational culture that doesn’t show up in marketing materials but shows up every shift, on every dock.

That cultural fit was central to the transaction. One Frio’s platform thesis is not a financial roll-up. It is the deliberate construction of a single, standardized operating system across best-in-class regional businesses, with common KPIs, shared systems, integrated commercial coverage, and a consistent service standard, while preserving the local execution and customer relationships that made each business worth acquiring in the first place. KOG fits that model.

Why the West, and why now

The West of Ireland is a strategically important catchment for the Irish cold chain. It sits adjacent to a concentrated base of food production, particularly in dairy, meat, and seafood, that has historically been underserved by national-scale cold storage capacity. Demand in the region has consistently outpaced the supply of high-specification temperature-controlled space, leaving producers and exporters reliant on long inland hauls to access quality storage.

KOG changes that equation. The acquisition brings One Frio close to where product is made, reducing food miles for customers, improving inventory flexibility, and creating a credible regional alternative for shippers who have long needed one. Combined with McCulla and Granville Food Care, One Frio now offers customers genuine all-island coverage, East, North, and now West, under a single operator.

“This deal is about geography, capability, and timing. The West of Ireland has been a structural gap in the national cold chain for years, and KOG gives us the right platform, and the right team, to close it. With McCulla, Granville Food Care, and now KOG, our Irish footprint is set. The strategy phase is done. Now it’s time to kick off integration and get to work building the operating system that will define the next chapter for these businesses and their customers.”

- Aric Adams, Co-Founder and CEO, One Frio

Building on existing storage expertise, with capacity to grow

KOG is a storage-led acquisition, and it builds directly on the cold storage capability One Frio has been compounding across the platform. Each addition has deepened our expertise in handling specific product profiles, temperature regimes, and customer service models, from large-format pallet storage to mixed-SKU, high-throughput operations supporting both raw materials and finished goods flows.

KOG extends that base into a new geography with an established customer book and a team that knows its market. One Frio also intends to expand the asset over time, investing behind unmet regional demand to add capacity at the site and broaden the range of services offered to customers in the West.

The expansion will be phased and disciplined, sequenced alongside the platform’s wider investment program in capacity planning, systems standardization, energy and refrigeration optimization, and shared commercial coverage across the Irish network.

A disciplined transaction

KOG marks One Frio’s sixth completed acquisition, and the third in Ireland in the past twelve months, a pace made possible by a deal team and process built for repeatability.

“We’ve now executed six acquisitions on the platform, three of them in Ireland in the last twelve months. Each transaction sharpens the playbook across diligence, structuring, completion, and onboarding, and KOG was a clean execution from start to finish. The discipline we’ve built in deal execution is what allows us to keep moving at this pace without compromising on quality or on the businesses we partner with.”

- Dami Agbaje, Co-Founder and CFO, One Frio

A seller’s perspective

For the legacy ownership of KOG, fit mattered as much as price.

“We had options when we decided to explore a sale, but One Frio brought something different the moment we sat down with them. It was clear they understood the business we’d built, respected the team, and had a real plan for what came next. That’s not what most buyers bring to the table. I’m proud of what we built, and I’m confident KOG is in the right hands to take it forward.”

- Kevin O’Grady, founder and former owner, KOG Logistics

Integration is already underway

Integration began the day the deal closed. KOG’s customers and employees have been informed directly, and the operational handover is in motion. Existing leadership remains in place, service teams are unchanged, and customer points of contact stay the same, ensuring full continuity through the transition.

From here, KOG joins the rhythm of the wider One Frio platform: shared commercial coverage across Ireland, integration into the platform’s investment program, and access to a broader Irish and European network. Customers will see the benefits compound over time through unified visibility, reporting, and a consistent service standard across every One Frio site.

Continued momentum

The KOG transaction is the latest step in One Frio’s pan-European build-out. The platform now operates across the Netherlands and the island of Ireland, with a deep pipeline of further opportunities under evaluation. Capital deployment over the next twelve to twenty-four months will focus on selective bolt- ons, organic capacity expansion at existing sites including KOG, and the development of new-build automated facilities in strategic catchments.

About KOG Logistics

KOG Logistics is a privately-owned third-party logistics provider based in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, in the West of Ireland. The business operates a 166,000 sq. ft. high-bay narrow-aisle warehouse with capacity for approximately 30,000 pallet positions, offering both ambient and temperature-controlled storage alongside value-added services including pallet management, packaging, and temperature monitoring.

KOG serves a diverse customer base across food, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods, with strategic road connectivity via the N5 and N85 to Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Galway.