Building a sustainable supply chain for the future
United Fresh was founded in 2007, with the vision of offering the foodservice industry a locally-sourced alternative to national supply.
Who are we?
Your ultimate local food supplier – Offering a complete fresh supply chain of local Fresh Produce, Meat, Seafood, Dairy, Baked Goods and Dry Store.
With a diverse and broad network of independent regional companies, spanning across Fresh Produce, Meat, Seafood, Dairy, Baked Goods and Dry Store, we are able to offer clients a reliable supply chain from John O’Groats to Land’s End. You are never more than 50 miles from your local United Fresh supply partner, in fact, we can do one better – across our entire client base, our average distance from your kitchen to the nominated depot is 29 miles!
Not only are we able to benefit the local communities of our clients and supply partners by supporting the local economies, but your kitchens enjoy the benefit of these local relationships whilst head offices enjoy a simplified, consolidated invoice, admin and contact across all categories.
A network built on delivering excellence
Champions of local sourcing
Our supply partner network connects clients with amazing regional growers and producers. By sourcing the finest seasonal British products, we inspire seasonally driven menus and can help bring genuine regional dishes to life for your customers. We support local communities and help clients make local sourcing a realistic part of their business practices on a national scale.
Serious about sustainability
We’re genuinely passionate about sustainability in everything we do. From farm to fork, we work hard to reduce the environmental impact of our supply chain by not only keeping food miles low but also by educating and leading through the supply chain on the best practices possible. We’re on a mission to become the go-to supplier of choice that helps customers achieve their sustainability goals.
Providing simplicity and support
We understand the time and resource pressures our clients face, so we make ordering and invoicing as simple as possible. We ensure responsive and knowledgeable assistance with our streamlined processes, centralised head office control systems, and multi-level dedicated support system from your customer services contact at depot all the way to United Fresh Head Office.
Expertise that drives success
We are passionate about ‘Vegucating’ our audiences about seasonality and keeping up-to-date with the issues affecting the supply chain, hospitality and foodservice industries. Growing this knowledge helps drive our network’s success, ensuring we are always one step ahead. Our ‘Vegucation’ scheme provides the next generation with knowledge and insight to aid them as they mature into adult life enabling, not only, maybe their career choice but food and dietary.
A network built on delivering excellence
Champions of local sourcing
Our supply partner network connects clients with amazing regional growers and producers. By sourcing the finest seasonal British products, we inspire seasonally driven menus and can help bring genuine regional dishes to life for your customers. We support local communities and help clients make local sourcing a realistic part of their business practices on a national scale.
Providing simplicity and support
We understand the time and resource pressures our clients face, so we make ordering and invoicing as simple as possible. We ensure responsive and knowledgeable assistance with our streamlined processes, centralised head office control systems, and multi-level dedicated support system from your customer services contact at depot all the way to United Fresh Head Office.
Expertise that drives success
We are passionate about ‘Vegucating’ our audiences about seasonality and keeping up-to-date with the issues affecting the supply chain, hospitality and foodservice industries. Growing this knowledge helps drive our network’s success, ensuring we are always one step ahead. Our ‘Vegucation’ scheme provides the next generation with knowledge and insight to aid them as they mature into adult life enabling, not only, maybe their career choice but food and dietary.
Champions of local sourcing
Our supply partner network connects clients with amazing regional growers and producers. By sourcing the finest seasonal British products, we inspire seasonally driven menus and can help bring genuine regional dishes to life for your customers. We support local communities and help clients make local sourcing a realistic part of their business practices on a national scale.
A network built on delivering excellence
Providing simplicity and support
We understand the time and resource pressures our clients face, so we make ordering and invoicing as simple as possible. We ensure responsive and knowledgeable assistance with our streamlined processes, centralised head office control systems, and multi-level dedicated support system from your customer services contact at depot all the way to United Fresh Head Office.
Expertise that drives success
We are passionate about ‘Vegucating’ our audiences about seasonality and keeping up-to-date with the issues affecting the supply chain, hospitality and foodservice industries. Growing this knowledge helps drive our network’s success, ensuring we are always one step ahead. Our ‘Vegucation’ scheme provides the next generation with knowledge and insight to aid them as they mature into adult life enabling, not only, maybe their career choice but food and dietary.
Serious about sustainability
We’re genuinely passionate about sustainability in everything we do. From farm to fork, we work hard to reduce the environmental impact of our supply chain by not only keeping food miles low but also by educating and leading through the supply chain on the best practices possible. We’re on a mission to become the go-to supplier of choice that helps customers achieve their sustainability goals.
Providing simplicity and support
We understand the time and resource pressures our clients face, so we make ordering and invoicing as simple as possible. We ensure responsive and knowledgeable assistance with our streamlined processes, centralised head office control systems, and multi-level dedicated support system from your customer services contact at depot all the way to United Fresh Head Office.
Expertise that drives success
We are passionate about ‘Vegucating’ our audiences about seasonality and keeping up-to-date with the issues affecting the supply chain, hospitality and foodservice industries. Growing this knowledge helps drive our network’s success, ensuring we are always one step ahead. Our ‘Vegucation’ scheme provides the next generation with knowledge and insight to aid them as they mature into adult life enabling, not only, maybe their career choice but food and dietary.
Sustainability
We are dedicated to being stewards of our planet. Hospitality and Agriculture are big topics within the sustainability sphere, and we know that things have to change. Which is why we’ve dedicated significant time and funding into our own team to guide not only ourselves, but our supply partners down the path that is needed to build a sustainable supply chain for the future. Working closely with stakeholders and clients, we understand the importance of steady but consistent progress in the right direction.
Seasonality
You may have picked up on our passion for seasonality. As we have moved as a collective into a time of consuming what we want, when we want, the art of seasonal eating has taken a steep decline. We want to change this.
We know this will only happen through widespread education of the subject to all. Whether that be at our ‘Vegucation’ events with children and young adults, to our more mature colleagues.
The goal of this is bring you seasonal, great tasting, products all year round to enhance your menu. Of course, we will be able to get you some lovely European strawberries in December, however, we would much prefer to bring you an abundance of cranberries, medlars and pears for that festive kick! Our goal is to guide and educate, it’s just a bonus you get the best quality product out of it!
To help out, we have made a quick chart to aid in understanding when your fresh produce favourites are in UK season. We must point out that this is a changing set of data, and with every year there is some shift, so if you want some live data, reach out to us to have a chat.