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Boroughbridge-based Reed Boardall, one of the leading providers of cold storage and distribution services to food producers and retailers across the UK, is tackling the current national HGV driver shortage crisis by bringing a new generation of professional drivers into the industry via its successful Driver Academy launched last autumn. Since the inception of the…

Yorkshire-based cold storage and transport business Reed Boardall in Boroughbridge has been helping local pupils learn more about how their food gets from ‘farm to fork’ with ex-pupil Stevland Town, now managing director of the company’s transport division, visiting the school. Stevland talked to around 30 three to five-year-olds at Boroughbridge Primary School about how…

Reed Boardall completes work on largest and most modern cold store in the UK

Reed Boardall announces planned cold store facility investment amid continued rise in demand

The latest financial results for Yorkshire-based cold storage and transport business The Reed Boardall Group Limited show that the company has continued to build on its solid foundations with revenues remaining close to the previous year at £64.3m in the year to 31 March 2016 (£65.9m in 2015). Serving leading retailers and food manufacturers throughout…

Reed Boardall, the Yorkshire-based cold storage and transport business, is celebrating an employment milestone – it now has 200 employees who have worked for the family firm for over ten years. Since opening its single site in Boroughbridge in 1992, the £66m turnover business has grown into one of the leading names in the British…

Yorkshire-based cold storage and transport business Reed Boardall in Boroughbridge has come to the aid of local pupils by making a surprise visit to the school with a refrigerated truck! More than 28 children in the reception class at Boroughbridge Primary School, including three whose parents work at Reed Boardall, were waiting outside the school…

Temperature controlled food distribution business Reed Boardall has been granted planning permission for a 110,000sq ft extension to one of its largest and most modern cold stores. Based on a 55 acre site in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, the company already provides 142,000 pallet capacity across its four state-of-the-art cold stores. The potential extension to Cold…

Yorkshire-based cold storage and transport business The Reed Boardall Group Limited has put in another sound financial performance with revenues rising to just under £66m in the year to 31 March 2015, an increase of 3% from the previous year’s total sales of just over £64m. The Boroughbridge-based company, which serves leading retailers and food…

Young’s Seafood Limited has appointed Reed Boardall to be its partner in the collection, storage and delivery of its foodservice business. This piece of frozen work has come off the back of a very successful chilled operation which has been running for several years and the assistance provided to another Young’s site, Pinneys of Scotland,…

Andrew Jones, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport and MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, visited Reed Boardall Group’s 55 acre cold storage and transport operation in Boroughbridge, on Friday 7 August. One of the largest temperature controlled food distribution businesses in the UK, Reed Boardall stores and delivers frozen food from manufacturers across Britain,…

Boroughbridge Motors, part of the Reed Boardall Group, the temperature controlled storage and distribution business, has joined forces with local Volvo partner Crossroads Truck and Bus Ltd to create an on site Authorised Testing Facility (ATF) able to provide MOT testing for the 180-strong Reed Boardall fleet. “As we work with the leading names in…

As part of its ongoing commitment to continually upgrading its fleet, leading temperature controlled storage and distribution business Reed Boardall Group, has taken delivery of 50 brand new Volvo FH tractors with Euro 6 engines which also feature the latest safety technology. Supplied by the company’s regular Volvo partner, Crossroads Truck and Bus Ltd, this…

Yorkshire-based temperature controlled storage and distribution business Reed Boardall is strengthening its board with the appointment of Sarah Roberts as finance director and Marcus Boardall as deputy chief executive having moved from his former role of finance director. Sarah, who is a chartered management accountant with CIMA and an AAT fellow, has worked in finance…

Boroughbridge-based Reed Boardall has taken on an unusual assignment this week – the temperature controlled distribution company, whose core business is storing and delivering frozen foods to the UK’s leading supermarkets, is transporting 300 potentially prizewinning plants for a specialist nursery in Ripon which is going for gold at Chelsea this year! Family-run Drointon Nurseries,…