Are you in the dark over transport?

Palletforce can help you get to the root of the issue

Producers and retailers could be missing out on healthier profits by ignoring their transport and delivery operations. With new technology and major developments within the transport industry, it’s worth taking another look at the options out there. One example is the rising success of the UK’s leading palletised distribution network, Palletforce. This smart and highly-successful transport network has invested in a state-of-the-art £30million Hub to offer the most efficient transport services from crop to shop.

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Bags of Fresh Ideas

Natures Way Foods (NWF) is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of bagged salads and prepared fruits to the retail and foodservice sectors. Its impressive list of clients includes Tesco and Morrisons, alongside McDonald’s, Pret-a-Manger, Pizza Express, Ask and Zizzi.

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A Commitment to Quality Helps to Buck the Trend

2009 was a difficult year for most companies; yet GW Price Limited had its best year to date – and that’s no small boast when you consider that the company served its first customer in the year that King Edward VII opened his first parliament, 1901.

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A Refusal to Compromise

Economists will tell you that productivity is the key to an expanding economy and to keeping inflation in check. Yet, in times of recession businesses are often afraid to re-invest and move forward with their strategies.

This is particularly true in the farming world, where over the past season growers have seen crippling cost increases coupled with less than satisfactory prices for produce. However at A.L.Lee & Sons they have refused to compromise, continuing to invest in the business whilst expanding the potato acreage.

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Apples from Styria Sweeten the UK Diet

EVA is an export company that supplies the international market with apples from Styria, the province known as ‘the green heart of Austria’. There is a long tradition of exclusive fruit production of the very highest quality in Styria.

Even back in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, apples from Styria were packed into wooden barrels and sent to the Russian tsar’s court. Today, there are more than one thousand modern fruit farming enterprises in Styria that are committed to high quality production. The fruit farms are organised in sales cooperatives and deliver their harvest to regional marketing companies for storage and sale. The association of apple exporters EVA (short for ‘Exportvereinigung Apfel’), is Austria’s biggest fruit marketing company and supports apple farmers in their striving for optimum quality by investing time, money and know-how in perfect production, storage and logistics conditions.

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