Established in 1998, we provide high quality, cost effective, temperature-controlled distribution services to companies within the Samworth Brothers Group, as well as to many external chilled food manufacturers, retailers and other distributors.

The business operates out of four chilled distribution sites (Leicester, Penrith, Callington and Bristol), seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

We have over 122 articulated vehicles and around 240 trailers in our fleet driven by our 300 drivers, travelling the length and breadth of the country every day, delivering to our customers.

Our site in Oak Meadow Leicester has over 10’000 pallet storage capacity across chill, deep chill and frozen, supported by blast freezers, temper rooms and double deck bays. Orders are picked for our customers by our team of over 150 warehouse operatives and our leading-edge functionality allows for full real time stock availability to help our customers.

Samworth Brothers Supply Chain
70% of our volume is day one for day one; 99.8% pick accuracy. Each week, our warehouses handle over 24,000 pallets and pick 800,000 cases.

British Retail Consortium Storage & Distribution Accredited AA* (Oak Meadow) and a member of Logistics UK, Road Haulage Association Ltd & Cold Chain Federation.

Our business

As a highly professional and service driven business, we have a reputation with retailers for providing the highest levels of on-time delivery performance within the chilled food market. Our figures speak for themselves: 95% on-time service levels; 99.8% pick accuracy. Each week, our warehouses handle over 24,000 pallets and pick 800,000 cases. We are British Retail Consortium Storage & Distribution Accredited (Oak Meadow) and a member of Logistics UK.

Our people

We are very proud of the commitment and loyalty of our team, which currently numbers over 600 colleagues. More than half our staff have been with us for over five years, with a quarter having over 10 years’ service. Each year we celebrate the long service of many members of staff across the business, including awards up to 50 years' service. Our people are our greatest asset and are committed to getting the job done, priding themselves on the quality, service and delivery we achieve on a daily basis for our customers.

Community & environment

At Samworth Brothers Supply Chain, we support a range of different charitable and community activities. As well as encouraging the charitable events undertaken by individual members of staff, we also actively support Leicestershire Cares initiatives. In 2020, we set out to improve fuel consumption across our fleet and during that year, we succeeded in saving 1 million litres of fuel which equated to CO2 savings of almost 400 tonnes. We continue to strive for further improvement and through a variety of initiatives and fleet development our savings continue year on year. We are also committed to raising awareness for Heavy Goods Vehicle and pedestrian safety, in particular, for children. We visit local schools with our fleet and demonstrate the importance of Heavy Goods Vehicle and transport safety.