Announcements

11 January 2010
Notice of Results

Food Distribution

Boughey Distribution is a specialist warehousing and distribution business of ambient groceries. The core of the business is the consolidation of a number of food manufacturers and importers' products and distribution to the regional distribution centres of the major supermarket groups and to other retail destinations. The business provides a cost-effective solution by distributing full loads across the UK on a daily basis and an expertise working with some of the largest blue chip food brands and retailers in the UK grocery sector.

Boughey Distribution began originally by collecting milk from farms and has grown today to become a leading national distributor in the grocery industry. It has its own fleet of rigid and articulated vehicles and trailers based at the 55 acre main Group site at Wardle, Cheshire. This business has over 900,000 square feet of warehousing and 115,000 pallet spaces located at Wardle and Deeside. Customers' products are stored prior to daily order-picking for delivery, usually by the Boughey fleet, in mixed consolidated loads contributing to the modern efficient grocery distribution chain. Some warehouse capacity at Wardle is also temperature regulated.

Sophisticated stock control systems ensure correct rotation of products and full traceability from point of receipt to delivery. Goods are held on behalf of around 200 customers who are manufacturers or importers of branded and private label products. Deliveries are made nationally to the full range of supermarket, wholesale and speciality chains.

A versatile packing department is located at Wardle whose facilities include labelling, shrink wrapping, flow-wrapping, sleeving and barcoding plus inspection and promotional packing services. Together with customer/ supplier e-links, Boughey Distribution offers a complete service centred on a single site.

Boughey Distribution has its own web presence at www.boughey.co.uk