January 2011
RISING TO THE CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE
Reed Boardall buys second gritter and 100 tonnes of salt It may have been the worst Christmas weather on record with difficult trading for most but frozen and chilled foods distributor Reed Boardall kept deliveries on track averaging 60,000 pallet movements per week during December. more...
September 2010
BOROUGHBRIDGE BROTHERS SAY ‘YES’ TO NEW VOLVO TRUCKS
Three brothers – Paul, Waine and Chris James - who all work for frozen food storage and distribution business Reed Boardall in Boroughbridge, say they are very happy to be driving the latest Volvo trucks which have just arrived. The tractor units are part of an overall consignment of 65 new vehicles – namely Euro 5 Volvo FH13 models - which are joining the constant fleet of around 150 vehicles. more...
March 2010
GREEN TRANSPORT FOR THISTLE SEAFOODS
A new distribution agreement with frozen and chilled food consolidator Reed Boardall
March 2010
REED BOARDALL SCOOPS TWO AWARDS FROM ASDA
Frozen food consolidator Reed Boardall
March 2010
BOROUGHBRIDGE CHARITY SECURES KEYS TO NEW £30,000 COMMUNITY MINIBUS
Boroughbridge and District Community Care (BCC) has received a new 13-seat minibus to support its work within the local community. The minibus, secured through a fund raising campaign supported by the Boroughbridge Mayor’s appeal and Reed Boardall Cold Storage Ltd, will be available to the whole community, providing a service to both young and old. more...
September 2009
REED BOARDALL BOOSTS FLEET WITH 56 MORE SCANIAS AND MANS
Reed Boardall Group, the UK's leading frozen food storage and distribution business, is taking delivery of 56 new tractor units including the latest Euro 4 MAN TGX XXL models as well as the Scania 480 Topline and 420 Highlines more...
March 2009
ASDA AWARDS REED BOARDALL’S GREEN CREDENTIALS
Frozen food consolidator Reed Boardall has won ‘Environmental Carrier of the Year’ in ASDA’s inaugural awards for its distribution service providers. The Boroughbridge-based company, which operates a single site cold storage operation of 112,000 pallets and is ASDA’s only frozen food consolidator, was also runner up for the ‘Carrier of the Year’ category. more...
December 2008
A ‘FIRST’ IN QUALITY FOR REED BOARDALL
Cold storage and transport operator Reed Boardall is the first in the country to achieve fully accredited certification to the new British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standard for Storage and Distribution. more...
July 2008
COLD STORE BEATS THE GLOOM WITH SURGE IN DEMAND
The UK’s largest cold storage site is experiencing increased demand for its services since opening a new £7 million extension less than a month ago. Despite the economic turndown, Yorkshire-based Reed Boardall Group reports that its new cold store extension, which was opened ahead of schedule at the beginning of June, is almost full. more...
June 2008
FROZEN BUSINESS SET TO INCREASE BY 24 PER CENT
One of the UK’s largest temperature-controlled food distribution companies is now ready to increase its business by 24 per cent. The news comes as directors and employees at Reed Boardall witnessed the successful breakthrough from an existing coldstore to the new £7 million extension. more...
April 2008
REED BOARDALL GIVES FRIDGE FLEET A SOLAR REVAMP
Reed Boardall Group operates one of the UK's largest temperature controlled fleets, delivering goods worth around £10m every day - and that makes on-going vehicle replacement an important part of maintaining unrivalled performance levels. more...
January 2008
COLOSSAL COOLERS ARRIVE FOR MAJOR COLD STORE EXTENSION
Eight sets of coolers have just been installed at Reed Boardall’s new cold store extension in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. Made of galvanised steel for extra strength, the 150-kilowatt coolers weigh four tonnes each and are some of the largest in the UK. Once the building is complete they will bring the internal temperature down to -28C producing a huge 3.4 million cubic foot deep freeze more...
November 2007
TWO NEW DIRECTORSHIPS AT REED BOARDALL
Two new directorships have been created at Reed Boardall, the UK’s leading retail frozen foods storage and distribution group, to promote managers Andrew Baldwin and Howard Gill. Respectively, they will be operations director of Reed Boardall Cold Storage Limited and of Reed Boardall Transport Limited. more...
June 2007
NINE WORKERS, INCLUDING THE BOSSES, CLOCK UP 180 YEARS AT REED BOARDALL
Six members of staff and their three bosses at the Reed Boardall Group have just celebrated working at the Boroughbridge-based firm for 20 years each. more...
January 2007
EFFICIENT STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION ARE CRUCIAL FOR AUNT BESSIE’S PHENOMENAL GROWTH
With the capacity to produce 30 million individual Yorkshire puddings a week from its manufacturing site in Hull, Tryton Foods has certainly embraced the growing demand for its Aunt Bessie’s range of frozen foods. more...
November 2006
REED BOARDALL’S ‘BURN RUBBER’ TEAM WINS ‘FORMULA ONE IN SCHOOLS’ PRIZE
The ‘Burn Rubber’ team from Boroughbridge High School, sponsored by Reed Boardall, beat more than 30 schools to win one of the top awards at the F1 in SchoolsTechnology Challenge Yorkshire and Humberside regional finals. more...
October 2006
REED BOARDALL TO CAPTURE 2 MILLION LITRES OF TORRENTIAL RAIN
In response to the increase in sudden downpours, one of the UK’s largest frozen foods distributors is almost doubling its capacity to recycle rainwater. more...
May 2006
REED BOARDALL BACKS HIGH SCHOOL
A team of four students at Boroughbridge High School have secured all the sponsorship they need from Reed Boardall to design and build a model Formula One racing car. To secure the £350 sponsorship, the ‘Burn Rubber’ team - KT Scott, Jamie Mulhall, Sarah Barker and Joanna Kuunal from Year 7 - made a presentation to Reed Boardall’s group managing director Keith Boardall. more...
March 2006
REED BOARDALL INCREASES ITS HORSEPOWER
Food logistics leader Reed Boardall has taken delivery of 30 Scania 500R tractor units as part of its on-going replacement programme. more...
February 2006
REED BOARDALL QUADRUPLES PIONEERING DOUBLE DECK TRAILER FLEET
After pioneering the use of refrigerated double-deck trailers with moving floors, food logistics leaders Reed Boardall now have the largest fleet in the UK. The Yorkshire-based temperature controlled food distribution company worked with Gray & Adams in 2000 to develop a double decker that would maximise pallet accommodation, and immediately ordered five of them more...
January 2006
SKYDIVERS RAISE OVER £1,000 FOR MACMILLAN
Four staff from Reed Boardall in Boroughbridge raised a total of £2,500 by doing a sky-dive. Part of the proceeds - £1,100 - has been presented to Macmillan Cancer Relief. more...
September 2005
SQUASH SPONSORSHIP FROM BOROUGHBRIDGE’S LARGEST EMPLOYER
Cold storage operator Reed Boardall is sponsoring the Boroughbridge Squash Team for the second year running. more...
September 2005
£450,000 GENERATOR INVESTMENT CREATES ENOUGH POWER TO LIGHT UP DISNEYLAND
The UK’s largest retail frozen foods distribution business, Reed Boardall, has just invested £450,000 in two massive generators to guarantee continuous power at its cold store operation in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. more...
August 2005
DELIVERY EFFICIENCY SUPPORTS FREIBERGER'S RAPID PIZZA GROWTH
Supermarkets are citing delivery efficiency, supplied by Reed Boardall, as one of the key factors in choosing Freiberger for their own-label frozen pizzas. more...
May 2005
REED BOARDALL PIONEERS RFID IN COLD STORAGE
Maintaining its position as the leader in supply chain technology, retail frozen foods distributor Reed Boardall is thought to have become the world’s first public cold storage business to pilot the use of radio frequency identification labelling (RFID). more...
May 2005
IT’S A DRIVERS’ WORLD AT REED BOARDALL
New vehicles, shift patterns to suit, long service awards and annual gifts for accident-free driving are some of the incentives which make drivers join and stay with frozen and chilled foods distributor Reed Boardall more...
April 2005
SMOOTH DISTRIBUTION FOR MACKIE’S ICE CREAM
Delivering up to 250,000 litres of ice cream each week to all the major supermarkets and wholesalers is no mean feat for Mackie’s of Scotland. But the award winning company says that deliveries have become a lot easier since they started using Reed Boardall to handle the whole lot. more...
March 2005
GARRY TILBURN APPOINTED VICE-CHAIRMAN
Garry Tilburn, managing director of Reed Boardall Cold Storage in Boroughbridge, has been appointed vice-chairman of the European division of the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW). He will then succeed as chairman of the association in 2006. more...
February 2005
KEEPING FREEZERS STOCKED WITH QUORN
There is no doubt that Quorn has come a long way since Marlow Foods launched it in 1986. Today, providing health conscious consumers with a meat alternative, Quorn comes in a wide range of frozen and chilled products from burgers, sausages, fillets and nuggets to mince, chicken style pieces, pies and other ready meals more...
October 2004
PETER, IAN & HELEN BECOME HEALTH & SAFETY SUPREMOS
Three members of staff at Reed Boardall have received the coveted National General Certificate in Health & Safety. This follows on from last year’s achievement when they all passed the Advanced Certificate for Health & Safety in the Workplace more...
September 2004
NORTH YORKSHIRE AEROBATICS ACE TRIUMPHS AGAIN
Amateur aerobatics pilot Tom Cassells from Upper Dunsforth, North Yorkshire, has won the coveted Daily Telegraph Neil Williams Memorial Trophy. more...
August 2004
BOROUGHBRIDGE BOSS HELPS SECURE BRONZE MEDAL FOR BRITAIN
Tom Cassells, managing director of Reed Boardall Transport, has returned triumphantly from the 14th European Aerobatic Championship. Along with four other aerobatic pilots, his team came third to secure the bronze medal for Britain at the end of the five-day event in Lithuania. more...
August 2004
REED BOARDALL LISTENS TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
Boroughbridge frozen foods distributor Reed Boardall has recently submitted revised plans for a new cold store. The plans take into account the concerns raised in July 2003 by council members and local groups when the company’s original planning application was refused. more...
July 2004
BOROUGHBRIDGE’S LARGEST EMPLOYER CONTINUES
Boroughbridge’s largest employer Reed Boardall has made a donation of £4,300 to purchase sound equipment for the town’s High School. more...
May 2004
HIGHER TORQUE ENGINES KEEP DRIVERS AND BOSS HAPPY
As part of its continuous replacement programme, Reed Boardall now has 15 new Scania 164 V8 and 15 new MAN TGA 480 tractor units. They join a permanent fleet of 160 vehicles which travel more than 28 million kilometres in the UK each year. more...
April 2004
BOROUGHBRIDGE COLD STORE ACHIEVES TRAINING CENTRE STATUS
Employing more than 600 people, with many working in an environment where temperatures reach -28°C and forklift trucks abound, environmental issues such as health and safety are a priority for Reed Boardall Cold Storage in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. more...
March 2004
CHEVIOT FOODS' SUPPLY CHAIN IMPROVES WITH REED BOARDALL
Frozen food manufacturer Cheviot Foods Ltd says its added value potato products are getting to store more efficiently since it appointed Reed Boardall, the UK's largest consolidator of frozen foods, as its main distribution contractor. more...
March 2004
TELEVISION PROVES POPULAR FOR LONG SERVICE AWARDS
After a hard day's work on the road or in the cold store it seems that television is the preferred method of relaxation for Reed Boardall's long serving staff. more...
