No matter who you are, or where you are in the world, there’s a good chance that our products are already a familiar part of your daily routine.
Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we’ve grown into one of the world’s most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
Look in the kitchen or the bathroom and you’re bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create, market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh.
Tesco is the third largest retailer in the world (measured by revenue) with stores across UK, Europe and Asia. Tesco was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen from a market stall in London’s East End and the name came from when he combined the three initials of a supplier of tea (T E Stockwell) with the first two letters of his surname!
Over the years our business has grown from 500 stores in the 1990s to more than 7,000 stores across 12 countries worldwide today. We now employ over 530,000 people and serve millions of customers every week.
Shop Direct is the UK’s leading multi-brand on-line retailer, delivering more than 50 million products every year to five million customers. Our household name digital department stores include Very.co.uk, Littlewoods.com and isme.com. Altogether, our brands receive more than 770,000 website visits every day.
We sell more than 800 big name brands alongside a selection of exclusive own label fashion brands, including Definitions, Savoir and Ladybird. We also offer highly desirable collections from a number of celebrity designers, including Fearne Cotton, Myleene Klass and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.
We pride ourselves on making good things more accessible to more people.
GB Railfreight is a Rail Freight operator but mainly moves freight by rail in bulk such as, Containers, coal, steel, building materials, petrochemicals and metals. Our company has earned praise for its innovative approach, flexibility, reliability and competitiveness as well as its customer service.
GBRf takes pride in delivering a top class service for its customers. We are the fastest Growing Rail Freight operator in the UK and have won the praise of customers and competitors alike, winning many rail industry awards since being founded in 1999.
Prologis is the leading provider of distribution property in the UK. Working with retailers, manufacturers and 3PL operators, the company owns and manages around 20 million square feet of industrial space in prime locations across the country.
Prologis provides customers and investors with modern accommodation that is designed and built to high standards of sustainability and it has the expertise needed to build facilities to suit customers’ precise requirements.
Prologis is a large global company with modern facilities of approximately 559 million square feet leased to more than 4,500 customers in 21 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Potter Logistics is one of the UK’s leading independent rail freight terminal operators. We provide road and rail transport services moving freight all over the country. We are able to handle goods at every stage from loading to final delivery.
The increasing use of our rail freight services reflects growing awareness of its commercial and eco-friendly rewards helping to reduce road congestion and lowering pollution levels.
We have three rail connected freight distribution centres in Yorkshire, Merseyside and Cambridgeshire. Each is conveniently located close to motorway routes, with links to major ports and the Channel Tunnel.
PGS delivers more than one million items a year, safely and on time. Small parcels or large pallets are transported by road, air and sea.
Our own fleet of vehicles means that if we have to deal with an unusual freight item we are able to cope with this easily.
We have a warehouse conveniently located in Birmingham, giving excellent access to all major roads, ports and airports.
PGS have regular daily departures to every corner of the globe! North America, Australia, Argentina, China, Japan, Korea, South Africa and Brazil are to name just a few.
Pall-Ex Group is one of the UK’s leading pallet networks in the UK and Europe. Founded in 1996 by entrepreneur and TV presenter, Hilary Devey, Pall-Ex has grown phenomenally, providing customers with an unparalleled level of cost-effective service, through a nationwide membership network of around 100 of the UK’s leading hauliers.
Pall-Ex Group currently comprises of five domestic freight networks – Pall-Ex UK, Pall-Ex Italia, Pall-Ex Iberia, Pall-Ex Romania and Pall-Ex France. Pall-Ex Group is currently underway in establishing networks in Germany, Poland, Turkey and the Benelux countries.
Network Rail runs, maintains and develops Britain’s rail infrastructure – including the tracks, signalling, bridges, tunnels, level crossings, viaducts and 17 key stations. Network Rail took over the running of the infrastructure in 2002 with the aims of improving safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway. Network Rail employs around 35,000 people and currently spends around £8 billion a year on running, maintaining and developing the infrastructure. Between 2009 and 2014 it has invested around £12 billion in enhancing the infrastructure to provide for the growth of passenger and freight traffic.
Established in 2008, Multimodal is firmly established as the UK, Ireland & Northern Europe’s premier freight transport, logistics and supply chain management event. Shippers and cargo owners attend to improve their businesses; by finding ways of moving their products more efficiently and by meeting new suppliers.
The exhibition hosts some 300 exhibitors offering the latest logistics, technological and supply chain solutions from equipment suppliers, ports, hauliers, shipping lines, 3PL and forwarders.
A seminar programme covers topics from the ‘Patterns of Global Trade’ to ‘Disruption technologies’ and lots more besides.
2019 also sees a focus on “tomorrow’s talent” including apprenticeships, training, education and recruitment.