For a food manufacturer, the transport risk sits at the far end: the RDC slot missed by forty minutes, the load queried at goods-in, the retailer’s QA asking for evidence your carrier can’t produce. We built our operation around those moments.
Getting into retail without drama
Retailer RDCs run on booking references and timed windows, and the paperwork gets checked before the doors open. Our drivers arrive against the booking with the consignment’s temperature record already on the system, so a query at goods-in gets answered from the trace rather than argued from memory.
A buffer when production and orders don’t line up
Production runs don’t match order patterns. Our cold storage holds the difference: frozen, chilled and ambient space across four depots, with pick and pack at our second Luton site. Stock drawn down goes out on the same operation that stored it, one record from racking to delivery door.
Frozen and chilled on one purchase order
Ranges span temperature bands. Dual-zone vehicles carry frozen and chilled lines on the same delivery, each zone recorded separately, so a mixed purchase order doesn’t become two transport plans.
What a typical week looks like
A manufacturer’s picked orders are collected in the afternoon, trunk overnight through the network, and deliver into RDC booking slots the next morning: the same rhythm, week in, week out. Around that core sit the irregulars: promotional uplifts, a short-dated batch that needs to move today, storage draw-downs timed to production runs.
What manufacturers say
“As a customer, the team at Igloo Thermo Logistics are great to deal with and their service is very efficient. Highly recommended.” (Samworth Brothers, Google review)
That review is public, and there are more like it. The pattern behind them is boring in the best way: bookings kept, temperatures held, evidence available when asked.
Chilled. Frozen. Delivered.
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