Omaha Nebraska Based Warehouse for Council Bluffs, IA

The company that is now an Omaha, NE warehouseFamily-Run Since 1894The same founding family still owns Gratton four generations on, after more than 130 years of Omaha freight work and a 2023 Best of B2B nod. dates to 1894, and its owners today are the fourth generation of the founding family. Council Bluffs owners who want a supplier still picking up the phone a decade from now will value that continuity. Over its long history Gratton has moved from paper ledgers to a cloud-hosted platform, yet the rule has held steady: treat goods carefully and tell the truth about the results. Powered by G5 Logistics, Gratton took home a 2023 Best of B2B trophy, an honor handed out by B2B Omaha.

Geography favors Iowa-side clients. Gratton's address, off I-80, gives drivers quick access to the metro's main highways, so a truck running to Kansas City, Lincoln or Des Moines stays off local streets and keeps distribution services moving. Our Omaha Chamber tie keeps us connected to the metro area that includes Council Bluffs. Gratton skips satellite buildings and serves the whole region from a single well-run site, so no customer carries the cost of contract storage floor area that nobody uses.

Storage Built Around Products

Accounts begin with the goods. The pallet racking can take a catalog of one SKU or five thousand, items of one pound or ten thousand, and a single piece of up to five tons. Retail and industrial lines both fit: consumer products, general merchandise, apparel, textiles, electronics, toys, machinery, archived documents and movie sets, alongside grocery and natural foods. Cold-sensitive goods get temperature-controlled storage, and hazmat services handle regulated items. A few SKUs or thousands get the same careful treatment, which suits Council Bluffs brands that add products each season. Any third-party logistics partner should explain its rules plainly, so ours are simple: you learn what we can store and how it ships before work starts. Because Council Bluffs sits so close, inbound shipments from Iowa suppliers can reach the Omaha dock without a long haul.

Extra services complete the picture. Beyond storage, crews take on kitting, break-bulk shipments, special projects and just-in-time deliveries, and returns management handles anything sent back. If you would rather pick up cartons yourself, use will-call on a weekday. Every step is scanned and logged on our side, so nobody needs to call for an update. Stock reports can go to an owner, bank or auditor, and the same data is always there online for a quick check before a customer call, along with order fulfillment status showing which orders left our dock.

A Partner Across the Bridge

Council Bluffs has a rhythm that suits flexible storage. Casino and event traffic rises and falls with the weekend, data-center and construction crews work in project waves, and the rail corridor keeps freight moving through town all year. Space that grows and shrinks suits that pattern, regardless of whether the stock is parts, supplies, gift items or finished product bound for customers in Iowa and Nebraska. Shared space at Gratton scales with demand on month-to-month terms, and once a surge passes, you simply step back down to the space you need.

To begin, tell us what you sell, your usual monthly pallet count and the carriers you prefer, and the team will sketch the receiving, storage and shipping plan. Container unloading, JIT scheduling and cross-docking for mixed loads are good topics for the same conversation. After cartons arrive, your dedicated account manager is your go-to contact for changes and rush requests. Offloading the heavy work gives hours back to sales and customers, which is where a growing Council Bluffs company wants its staff, and the people who unload your trucks are the ones who answer when you have a question about a pallet. Ready? Ask for a storage quote.