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Oakland delivers over 100,000 food boxes for recipe kit producer in a year

Redditch, UK: Oakland International and Acorn Trade Partners (ATP) are collaborating with Grubby, a UK-based producer of plant-based recipe kits, to help the company further expand its business. The partnership has already been working successfully for a year. ATP, which is part of the Oakland International Group, works with new and developing brands to reach …

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Business bears the brunt of budget tax rises

London, UK: Chancellor of the ExchequerRachel Reeves announced the biggest tax increases in three decades in her first budget, raising tax by 40 billion pounds a year, most of it falling on businesses. Initial investor reaction to Reeves’ speech show most taking her plans well, with government bond prices rising further as she addressed parliament. …

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Harlech Foodservice wins new contracts

Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales: Fast-growing Welsh wholesaler Harlech Foodservice is expanding its workforce, having recently clinched over £1m in public contracts and opened two new depots this year, in Telford and Carmarthen. The company has won a “raft of new contracts”, ranging from supplying schools, care homes and colleges in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire, to school …

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Marine & Cargo puts the first all-electric Schmitz S.KOe Cool into operation in England

Bletchley, UK: Marine & Cargo has put the first all-electric Schmitz Cargobull S.KOe Cool trailer into operation in England, delivering to McDonald’s UK distribution centres. Andrew Marshall, managing director, Marine & Cargo, says: “We’ve had the S.KOe Cool on the road for a few weeks now and the early signs are really positive. The technology …

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Blakemore Fresh Foods’ trucks get new livery as part of rebranding

Wolverhampton, UK: Fresh meat wholesaler and distributor Blakemore Fresh Foods has started rebranding to Blakemore Meats with a new livery on its trucks. So far just one of the vehicles has the new livery but six more are to follow. Drivers will also have a new branded uniform. Blakemore says the rebranding “reflects the company’s …

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Asda invests in new bio-LNG refuelling stations

Warrington, UK: Asda is investing in two new Bio-LNG (liquefied natural gas) refuelling sites as it makes progress towards reducing its overall carbon emissions and achieving net zero by 2040. Asda has worked closely with Gasrec – a fuel provider for commercial vehicles in the UK – on the project. The new refuelling sites in …

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Press reports suggest GXO Logistics is exploring possible sale

Greenwich, Connecticut, USA: GXO Logistics, which was spun off from XPO in 2021, is said to be exploring a potential sale, according to a report in Bloomberg News. GXO is believed to be working with financial advisers. It is suggested that the company began to review its options after receiving interest from potential buyers. However, …

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Cotteswold Dairy adds 13 new trucks

Tewkesbury, UK: Cotteswold Dairy has returned to Asset Alliance Group to refresh its Daf-powered fleet. The family-run business has added 13 new generation rigids ranging from 7.5-tonne to 18-tonne Daf XBs, with a variety of power outputs. The order also includes two 26-tonne Daf 340 XDs. Ruairi Spencer, fleet logistics manager, Cotteswold Dairy, says: “We …

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New delays over post-Brexit digital border checks

London, UK: The third and final stage of the new post-Brexit border checks has become the latest part of the system to be delayed. The government has revealed that the third stage of Border Target Operating Model (Btom) – the Safety and Security Declarations – is to be delayed for three months, to January 31 …

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Sales of frozen food boom

Peterborough, UK: Frozen food manufacturers and temperature-controlled storage specialists are witnessing significant market growth in response to market demand for frozen foods, according to John Davidson, managing director, JS Davidson, pictured above. “It’s no secret that the cost-of-living crisis has led to a sizeable dent in the average household’s budget. To tackle this issue, there’s …

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Vertellus adds 10 electric refrigerated trucks

Warwick, UK: Commercial vehicle contract hire firm Vertellus has added 10 fully electric refrigerated trucks to its EV Discovery Programme. The scheme, one of the UK’s first battery electric vehicle Equipment as a Service, aims to make electric vehicle trials affordable and accessible for operators in temperature-controlled transport. The ten new 18-tonne Renault Trucks E-Tech …

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Sysco boosts solar power capacity

Bicester, UK: Foodservice supplier Sysco GB has installed solar panels on roofs at three more depots in the UK, doubling the power generation capacity across the company’s network. Rooftops at its Newhouse (North Lanarkshire), Reading and Warrington depots will now generate almost 3 million kWh per year combined, building on installations at Aylesford and Harlow …

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