Purpose built Swithenbank depot opens to meet growing demand
Leading wholesale food distributor 3663 has opened a new purpose built depot for its Swithenbank Fresh & Fine Foods specialist business, to support growing customer demand in the South East region.
Swithenbank has over 120 years of trading experience. Whilst retaining and embracing this heritage, the small business has since evolved to sit under the 3663 umbrella, offering a wide range of specially selected fresh and chilled meat, fresh produce, chilled foods and more recently, fine foods.
The new modernised depot for Swithenbank commenced trading in Hoddesdon on 5 January 2014. The chilled storage and distribution facility increases the specialist business’s capacity for the South East of England three-fold. It also allows Swithenbank to encompass the rapid expansion of fresh meat, which is seeing phenomenal growth.
Accommodating a five temperature regime capacity, the new depot and Swithenbank’s fleet of strictly controlled temperature banded lorries, will facilitate the consolidation of customer orders exactly how they require, depending on their business type and activity to make customer’s lives easier.
Andrew Tiplady, Managing Director of Swithenbank says “Our specialist foods along with produce and fresh meat have seen significant sales increases. The Hoddesdon will offer our business and the wider 3663 business the increased capacity needed.
“The desire for customers to maximise purchasing by consolidation is growing. To accommodate this, our new depot will be a multi-temperature facility, meaning customers need only place one order, receive one delivery and one invoice, yet still have the specialist skills at hand. This ‘consolidated’ approach is also more sustainable, with fewer food miles being accrued.”
