Americold Realty Trust, Inc. (COLD)

Cold storage warehouses, 77% North America. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 10 of the 13 Real Estate companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 12,690 associates, 9,716 in North America, running 231 temperature-controlled warehouses with a transportation business beside them, so warehousing carries the workforce.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 18% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 9% people work and 66% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 76% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 14% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

12,690 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated alone; 9,716 of 12,690 associates are in North America (77%), 1,556 in Asia-Pacific, 1,300 in Europe and 118 in South America.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had a global workforce of approximately 12,690 employees: North America 9,716, Europe 1,300, Asia-Pacific 1,556, South America 118.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 9,716 North America, 1,300 Europe, 1,556 Asia-Pacific, 118 South America; about 23% union-represented under 77 collective bargaining agreements at 85 of 231 warehouses; 379,139 training hours, 29.88 per associate; headcount down from 16,300 in 2020.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Warehousing and Storage, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Amazon (AMZN, 1,576,000 employees)19% now, 33% by 2028
• MercadoLibre, Inc. (MELI, 123,670 employees)23% now, 41% by 2028
• Coupang, Inc. (CPNG, 108,000 employees)18% now, 21% by 2028
• GXO Logistics, Inc. (GXO, 105,000 employees)17% now, 22% by 2028
• Ryder System, Inc. (R, 51,600 employees)18% now, 23% by 2028
• Iron Mountain Incorporated (IRM, 29,400 employees)19% now, 28% by 2028
• Lineage, Inc. (LINE, 24,000 employees)17% now, 22% by 2028
• Chewy, Inc. (CHWY, 18,000 employees)24% now, 31% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

12 sentences in the filing name AI. Twelve sentences: the company's transformation project includes a cloud ERP and artificial intelligence related projects, and risk factors name generative AI among the drivers of more complex cyber threats.

• “The project includes the implementation of a new, best-in-class, cloud-based enterprise resource planning ("ERP") software system as well as other transformation related initiatives including 5 Table of Contents artificial intelligence related projects and market expansion initiatives.”
• “As a result of the emergence of new technologies, including generative artificial intelligence ("AI"), cybersecurity attacks and other security threats have also become increasingly complex .”
• “If we have a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports and the market price of our common stock could be adversely affected, and we could become subject to investigations by the stock exchange on which our securities are listed, the SEC, or other regulatory authorities, which could...”
• “The ever-increasing use and evolution of technology, including cloud-based computing and AI, creates opportunities for the potential loss or misuse of personal, confidential, and/or proprietary data that forms part of any data set and was collected, used, stored, or transferred to run our business, and unintentional dissemination or intentional destruction of confidential information stored in...”
• “AI also presents emerging ethical issues and if our use of AI becomes controversial, we may experience brand or reputational harm, competitive harm, or legal liability.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 202512median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• No count by business: the transportation share follows segment revenue (c).
• The patterns stand for work in Europe and Asia-Pacific under rule 7; the U.S. share is not stated alone.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-012274, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.