Company Overview
Food Logistics UK & Ireland | Temperature-Controlled Food Supply Chain Solutions
Established in 1998, Oakland International is an award-winning total supply chain solutions family business with a reputation for innovation through sustainability, servicing retail, wholesale, discount and convenience markets via our UK and Ireland multi-temperature-based facilities.
Delivering Temperature-Controlled Food Logistics Across the UK and Ireland
With strategically located depots within the UK and Ireland, Redditch (HQ), Corby, Bardon, Knottingley and Skelmersdale in the UK, and conveniently located adjacent to Dublin airport in Ireland, our extensive network provides the perfect multi-temperature solution for all your supply chain needs.
Providing fully integrated food logistics solutions for manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and foodservice operators throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, from a single temperature category to managing more complex requirements, our specialist teams provide tailored, reliable, scalable and sustainable supply chain solutions.
Why Choose Oakland International?
With extensive experience in food logistics and temperature-controlled supply chain management, we combine operational expertise, innovative thinking and customer-focused service to help businesses succeed.
Our customers benefit from:
✓ Multi-temperature logistics expertise
✓ Retailer consolidation specialists
✓ UK and Ireland distribution coverage
✓ Chilled, frozen and ambient capabilities
✓ Foodservice supply chain expertise
✓ Supply chain visibility and compliance
✓ Sustainable logistics solutions
✓ Dedicated customer support
A validatd SBTi business Oakland International is a leader in direct to consumer, case consolidation, contract packing, storage and distribution, food tempering and brand development support via Acorn Trade Partners (ATP) for all types of food. We are also experts in saving food and non-food products from going to waste via our Distress Load Management (DLM) service and aiming to be the first business within our sector to reach Net Zero.
A trusted BRCGS accredited supply chain partner, Oakland offers a cost-effective and efficient 3PL solution for many well-known food and consumer goods manufacturers and retail brands into all major destinations including Tesco, Asda, Waitrose, Tesco Dublin, Musgrave Ireland, Dunnes Stores and all UK retailers SPAR, Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury’s, Nisa and Boots.
A Customer Focused, Reliable and Flexible Multi-Temperature Storage and Logistics Service
Our reputation is built on delivering the best customer focused, reliable and flexible multi-temperature storage and logistics service, designed to help suppliers and manufacturers cope with peak seasonal demands, taking pressure out of the whole supply chain process.
Sustainability is at the core of our innovative business offering. Customers know they are in good hands, choosing our business time and time again as their preferred supply chain and logistics partner.
Why do so many suppliers pick up the phone and contact Oakland?
- Oakland International is a validated SBTi business.
- Our people, a dedicated team who promote high levels of service, producing positive customer endorsement.
- The personal touch, welcoming, always eager to explore new ideas and opportunities; considering, delivering and exceeding client expectations.
- Cost effective, a market leader in consolidation schemes, producing substantial customer benefits.
- IT investment, our warehouse management stock system provides customers with clarity of real time stock data, guaranteed accuracy levels and complete traceability.
- Reduced transport costs, utilising prime routes to market using tried and tested network partners, our own distribution fleet, and where possible, facilitating factory gate collections.
- BRCGS accreditation and quality, driving systems throughout our business and the basis of our formalised audited standards for the last six years.
- Complete solution, Oakland delivers a range of robust storage, picking, contract packing, co-packing and logistics solutions.
- 7 day account management, 364 days a year, safeguarding all orders, picking and distribution activity.
- Around the clock, Oakland’s on-site guards, 24 hr. monitoring of loading bays, complex alarm system and digital CCTV cameras monitor all on-site traffic.
- Knowledge that Oakland International has sustainability at the heart of the company; reducing our environmental impact, supporting community partnerships and setting a good example.
Oakland provides a total solution package for chilled, frozen, ambient and ancillary services that delivers a cohesive and transparent service from beginning to end.
All volume clients catered for, with the opportunity to supply every major UK and Irish retailer via Oakland International’s case and pallet consolidation platforms, a winner with numerous suppliers across mainland UK, Ireland and Europe throughout our many years in business, and a service, which continues to grow.
