Magnavale, one of the UK’s leading temperature-controlled storage and value-added food services specialists, has today announced a formal tri-partner alliance with the UK’s largest food redistribution charity Felix – formerly FareShare and The Felix Project, and Freshlinc, the specialist temperature-controlled logistics provider. Together, the three organisations will combine their respective expertise in cold storage, charitable food redistribution, and refrigerated transport to create a seamlessly integrated solution for rescuing and redirecting surplus frozen, ambient, and chilled food to those who need it most across the United Kingdom.
The partnership brings together complementary strengths at precisely the right moment. With food insecurity continuing to affect millions of households across the UK, and with the food industry under ever-greater pressure to eliminate waste from the supply chain, the alignment of Magnavale, Felix and Freshlinc represents a practical, scalable, and immediately impactful response.
A Natural Alliance of Shared Values
The three partners have each, independently, built their reputations on a commitment to efficiency, responsibility and reducing the environmental and social cost of food waste. Their formal alignment transforms what has been an area of shared interest into a structured, long-term operational partnership.
Magnavale brings to the alliance its unrivalled national cold storage network, spanning four strategically located facilities at Chesterfield, Easton, Scunthorpe, and Warrington, with a combined capacity exceeding 350,000 pallet positions. The business has invested heavily in recent years in automation, energy efficiency, and expanded capacity, including the February 2025 opening of at its newest development at the Easton site in Lincolnshire, housing 101,000 fully automated pallet spaces. That infrastructure is now a direct enabler of large-scale food rescue operations, providing frozen holding capacity that makes redistribution at volume possible.
Felix was launched earlier this year, following the merger of food redistribution charities FareShare and The Felix Project. The charity works with the food industry to rescue good- to-eat surplus food, which cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste. The food is shared, via a nationwide network, with more than 8,000 community organisations. From breakfast clubs and community kitchens to neighbourhood centres and homeless shelters, Felix food fuels places where 1.5 million people a year can eat, connect, and access vital support.
Freshlinc completes the trio, providing the critical link between storage and destination. As one of the UK’s most trusted temperature-controlled haulage businesses, Freshlinc operates a modern, well-maintained fleet with the capability and expertise to move chilled and frozen product safely, compliantly, and efficiently at scale. Their involvement ensures that food rescued from the supply chain and held within Magnavale’s network can be moved to Felix’s charity partners quickly and without compromise to product integrity.
Why This Partnership Matters Now
The timing of this alliance is significant. The UK food industry generates substantial volumes of surplus product every year arising from overproduction, seasonal demand fluctuations, specification changes, and short shelf-life situations. Much of this product is of entirely good quality and is nutritionally valuable, yet without the infrastructure and logistics capability to intercept and redistribute it at speed, it is too often lost to waste.
Magnavale’s network is uniquely positioned to function as a holding and marshalling point for surplus frozen, ambient, and chilled food, with the scale to absorb large, short-notice volumes and the operational flexibility to coordinate outbound movements efficiently. Freshlinc provides the transport capability to move that product onward rapidly and in full compliance with food safety requirements. And Felix provides the end-to-end charitable network, the relationships, the compliance frameworks, and the frontline connections to ensure that food reaches people in genuine need rather than going to waste.
Together, the three partners create something that none could achieve alone: a cold chain purpose-built for good.
Looking Ahead
The formal alignment announced today establishes the operational and governance framework for the partnership, with agreed protocols for surplus food intake, storage, collection scheduling, and onward distribution. All three organisations have committed to measuring and reporting on the social and environmental impact of the alliance tracking volumes of food redistributed, meals provided, and carbon emissions avoided through diversion from waste.
The partners have also signalled their ambition to grow the programme over time, inviting food manufacturers, retailers and processors who regularly generate surplus chilled or frozen product to engage with the alliance as a responsible, straightforward disposal and redistribution route.
For Magnavale, the partnership is consistent with its broader purpose as a business. As one of the UK’s most significant pieces of cold chain infrastructure, Magnavale has always understood that its role extends beyond commercial storage it is a critical component of the national food system. Placing that infrastructure in service of food redistribution, alongside two outstanding partners, is a natural expression of that responsibility.
