Achieving on-time deliveries is crucial for a successful business and progressive, high-volume biscuit manufacturer Hill Biscuits knew that it needed the right logistics supplier to improve its record in this area. As one of the UK’s leading ambient grocery distribution and storage companies, Boughey Distribution Ltd was glad to step up to the mark to help Hill Biscuits put its logistics back on track.
Based in Ashton-under-Lyne just outside Manchester, Hill Biscuits supplies many major retailers, discount stores and the wholesale/cash and carry trade, as well as exporting its products around the world and contract manufacturing for other companies. Needing a logistics supplier who could provide a better, more professional customer service to move the business closer to its target of consistent on-time deliveries, Hill Biscuits looked at Boughey Distribution before comparing its services to a couple of other companies. Having researched the services on offer and already knowing some of Boughey’s other clients, Hill Biscuits went back to Boughey on recommendation.
Said Hill Biscuits’ Managing Director Steven Wetherby, “On-time deliveries and good consolidation were the key factors for us. We always need storage for around 1000 pallets at a time and deliveries are generally straightforward full pallet loads, although there is a very small number of mixed pallet deliveries. However, delivery size can vary from a few pallets to a full load, and we wanted to get as close to on-time delivery as possible whatever the load. After a settling-in period, communications are well-established and we are achieving good delivery times.”
Said Keith Forster, Boughey’s MD, “We are pleased to be able to offer Hill Biscuits with a cost-efficient, superior service. Since the switch over, we have been able to improve delivery times considerably, which proves that value for money and quality of service can be mutually compatible with the right distributor.”

Following Boughey Distribution’s fresh new branding, the majority of it’s vehicle fleet has now received a fresh, new makeover in time for the new year.

The new look continues the Company’s blue colour scheme, with a fresh treatment to communicate a totally modern fleet image, including a distinctive update for the Company’s 20 year old logo, to help achieve high recognition on the road.
Keith Forster, Boughey Managing Director, said, “Our old livery had been with us for about 20 years. We have grown significantly over the years, so we thought it was time to reflect the dynamic attitude and success of the business.”
Boughey Distribution is one of the UK’s leading ambient grocery distribution and storage companies. The company previously doubled its storage facility five years ago and has since increased its turnover from £8.5 million to £27.5 million, a new £15 million storage development will be officially launched in 2008 and is expected to further increase the company’s turnover to over £45 million in the same year.

In addition to the new vehicle livery, Boughey has introduced stunning new branded trailers for several key clients, including Napolina and Typhoo.
Typhoo Tea was a new client for Boughey Distribution in 2007, the company stores approximately 7,000 pallets at its North Wales-based Deeside site and handles over 90,000 pallets throughput annually. Later in the year, Boughey took over the storage and handling of Typhoo’s raw tea which is now stored at the company’s Cheshire facility in Wardle. The raw tea contract comprises of the intake of sacks of raw tea from a number of tea-growing countries around the world before feeding into Typhoo’s factory at Moreton on a call off selected by the blenders at Typhoo.

Boughey Distribution Ltd, one of the UK’s leading distribution and storage companies, has been appointed to handle, store and deliver luggage for Deeset Travelways as part of ASDA’s supply chain.

Boughey can store 700 pallets of luggage for Deeset at any one time and sends full loads of the suitcases to ASDA’s Wakefield depot, one of the company’s 20 distribution centres. When Deeset delivers the luggage to Boughey on containers the cases are nested, with a medium and a small case inside each large case. Before the luggage can be dispatched on individual pallets, Boughey first denests the two smaller cases and stores them separately. As a result, three times as much storage space is required once denesting has taken place.

Said Keith Forster, Managing Director of Boughey, “This operation involves quite an amount of floor space and getting the timing right is really important. We manage this by keeping about a week’s stock denested in order not to cause any timing issues on dispatch.”

Said Eamonn Byrne, Business Development Manager for Deeset, “We are primarily using Boughey because of the synergy we have with them. We have an established relationship with ASDA and Deeset and Boughey were already involved with ASDA’s petcare products, so both companies are ASDA specialists. As we are a micro-pick operation, working with Boughey on ASDA’s luggage distribution has been a good coming together.”

The logistics solution provided applies lean principles to transform retail supply chains from push to pull, significantly reducing inventory levels and lead times. Offering robust, seamless, highly transparent and above all, cost effective solutions, it provides a dedicated “direct to store” next day delivery service supporting all ASDA stores as well as supporting deliveries to all other retailers’ distribution centres.
ASDA is part of the Wal-Mart group and currently has 340 stores with five distinct model formats: ASDA Wal-Mart Supercentre, ASDA Supermarket, ASDA Living, George High Street and ASDA Essentials.

Boughey Distribution Ltd, one of the UK’s leading distribution and storage companies, has been appointed by Evesham-based food ingredient importer Burtell Foods to store and deliver a variety of food products, with specific rotations of certain items, timed deliveries into food producers and weight recording of certain items before dispatch for invoicing purposes.

Burtell began working with Boughey in the summer of 2007 and uses the company to store around 280 pallets at any one time. Said Burtell’s General Manager, Dave Savage, “We had a warehouse situation for many years and we were having trouble with the pricing aspect of it, so we looked at a few companies to outsource to. Boughey came up with the best cost option and we also had a good experience when we visited their Wardle site. On arriving we got lost and drove around the site – our initial impression at that point was that they were too big for us but when we were met in reception we were instantly made to feel very important. Although we are quite a small organization we felt wanted and are glad we made the move.”

Burtell Foods specialises in supplying everyday and exotic food ingredients to manufacturers in the UK and abroad, including canned goods, dehydrates, tomato products, purees, food additives and colours, culinary wines, spirits and vinegars, vegetables for pickling and unusual ingredients.