Palmer & Harvey

Who Are We?

As the UK’s number one delivered wholesaler, Palmer and Harvey McLane Ltd is the first choice for over 70,000 customers nationwide. With a heritage that extends over 88 years, the group has grown from a traditional tobacco and confectionery wholesaler to a total retail solutions provider across ambient, chilled and frozen product categories distribution.

With a broad range of retail customers including independent newsagents, convenience stores and forecourts as well as the key grocery multiples, Palmer and Harvey is widely considered as the one-stop-shop in retail. In addition to providing product delivery Palmer and Harvey offers a complete range of solutions to help retailers increase their profitability and compete in a continually changing and vibrant market place.

Facts and Figures

Palmer & Harvey has:
 Over £4,1 billion turnover
 3,800 employees
 Over 1 000 vehicles
 On average 30,000 deliveries per week to 70,000 customers. That’s one delivery every 6 seconds!
 Supplier to major grocery multiples, convenience operators, forecourts, CTNs, off licences, on trade
 Direct distribution contracts with manufacturers, such as Coca Cola.
 Palmer and Harvey hosts Pro-retail, the UK’s Number 1 Trade show for independent and multiple retailers

Palmer & Harvey provides additional retail services and expertise:
 Snacksdirect and Sweetdirect van sales service
 Partnership Plus business development package
 Plus Extra third party direct-to-store
 Plus News category advice

The Service We Provide

Palmer and Harvey is the UK’s number 1 delivered wholesaler, with an annual turnover of more than £4 billion, serving the convenience, forecourt and CTN retail arena.

Its industry-leading delivery network of 14 regional depots places Palmer and Harvey within two hours of each and every customer. Our offering of excellent range, secure delivery direct into store, flexible delivery slots, easy ordering and free delivering give the retailer outstanding value. This is backed up by our diverse fleet of over 1,000 vehicles which delivers ambient, chilled and frozen products to every postcode in the UK and voice actuated picking in our warehouses which means our deliveries have higher than 99% accuracy.

As a key supply partner to major UK grocery multiples and the leading delivered wholesaler to the UK convenience market, Palmer and Harvey supplies more than 11,000 ambient, chilled and frozen product lines. It also holds direct distribution contracts with major UK manufacturers.

Palmer and Harvey can cater to different sizes of organisations, thanks to its flexible network and diverse fleet, which also includes a direct van sales operation to service smaller accounts.
Palmer and Harvey is one of the largest privately owned companies in the country, wholly owned by its current and former employees.

The BuyCo a joint venture between Palmer and Harvey and Costcutter Supermarkets Group is an independent company set up to provide both companies with market-leading negotiating power in the UK convenience sector.

Independents and Mini Multiples
Our customers include small and large independent “CTN” retailers (Confectionary, Tobacco Newsagents) but also larger, often multiple, Convenience Store retailers and also garage Forecourt retailers.