On August 4, 1925, Joseph Newburger filed paperwork in Wilmington, Delaware to create Chattanooga Cotton Compress Co. to purchase Churchill Cotton Compress Co. of Chattanooga, Tennessee. At the time, Joseph Newburger was an industry leading cotton merchant in Memphis, Tennessee who had started Newburger and Kory, and later Newburger Cotton Company. In 1926, Newburger changed the name of the company to Union Compress and Warehouse, and further expanded into another cotton warehouse company known as Federal Compress and Warehouse.
Willis H. Willey, who had worked for Newburger cotton since 1905, soon became the president of Newburger Cotton and Union Compress and Warehouse, and became the first in a long line of Willey’s to run the companies that are currently known as Willey Family Ventures. Throughout the 20th century, and into the beginning of the 21st century, the Willey family has owned and operated Union Compress Warehouse and a variety of other service-based businesses.
UCW Logistics, which was founded in 2013 and began operation in 2014, is the newest of the companies created or owned by the Willey Family since the creation of Union Compress Warehouse in 1925. The new company was created to build upon the long history of high service level logistics operations that the Willey family has operated. The initial services of truckload freight management have expanded over the years to also serve additional domestic freight transportation modes as well as assisting customers with complex international logistics and warehousing needs.
The UCW Logistics team operates on the same core values that have been pivotal to the long-standing success of Union Compress Warehouse: Driven to Service, Do the Right Thing, Make Tomorrow Better than Today, Share Information and Accomplish More Together. Through these core values, the team assists a variety of different shippers in their domestic freight needs with a focus on Building Something that Matters.
