Company Overview
UK and Ireland Multi Temperature Supply Chain Specialists
Established in 1998, the family business Oakland International is an award-winning integrated supply chain specialist with a reputation for innovation through sustainability. Oakland services retail, wholesale, discount and convenience markets via its UK and Ireland multi-temperature-based facilities.
With strategically located depots within the UK and Ireland, Redditch (HQ), Corby and Bardon in the UK, and conveniently located and adjacent to the airport in Dublin, Ireland, our network provides the perfect multi-temperature service network for your supply chain needs.
Oakland offers a range of value-added services encompassing: Contract Packing, Food Tempering, Direct to Consumer (D2C), Distress Load Management, food and drink brand development support via Acorn Trade Partners (ATP) and Border and Customs support through EORI at Folkestone and Worksop.
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, Tesco, Nisa and Boots.
A Customer Focused, Reliable and Flexible Multi-Temperature Storage and Logistics Service
Oakland’s 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 the pressure well and truly out of the whole supply chain process.
Sustainability is at the core of our business offering innovative and sustainable supply chain solutions. Oakland 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?
- 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.
