The Independents Independent Wholesaler

Who we are

Founded in 1987, following the acquisition of a single-site confectionery wholesale business based in North Shields, UK, Kitwave Group plc is a delivered wholesale business, serving the Retail, Wholesale and Foodservice Markets across the UK.

We specialise in delivering a wide impulse product portfolio including Ambient, Frozen, Chilled, Fresh Foods, Butchery, Alcohol and Tobacco.

Our focus is delivering our range of products to fulfil our customers needs, on time and in full.

Customer Ordering

We offer a variety of ways to order capture including EDI, an award winning e-Commerce Website, App Sales, Telesales, Email Ordering and Electronic Rep Ordering.

By having a variety of ways to process orders efficiently, it enables faster delivery to our customers.

Delivery Fleet

Operating an efficiency delivery fleet of c.650 delivery vehicles the Group fulfils over 4,800 deliveries per day.

The flexibility of having its own fleet enables the Group to deliver its commitment to service quality and provides the ability to allow customers to have lower minimum order levels whilst still achieving next day delivery if required.

Depots

The Group currently has a nationwide network of 37 depots, comprising 8 main stock holding depots and 22 satellite depots.

This provides a nationwide delivery capability to its customer base and the capacity to ensure stock holding is sufficient to achieve over 98% of deliveries being on time and in full.

Nationwide Depots

Delivery fleet

We have a delivery fleet of 650 vehicles

650

Direct sales force

We have a direct sales force of 300 sales reps and 2100+ staff

300

Our customers include

  • Independent CTN
  • Convenience stores
  • Public houses
  • Restaurants, cafes
  • Leisure centres
  • Wholesalers
  • Vending operators

This is just a small example of the businesses we service, why not call us to see if we can be of help to you.

 +44 (0) 191 259 2277

Company size

We employ in excess of 2,100 people

National delivery & export

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