Export Services

We can export your product to almost anywhere in the world

Export Destinations

Fully licensed for export to The USA, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia and one of only a handful of cold stores in the UK with Chinese export approval. A wealth of experience conducting export operations to South Africa, Malaysia, The Philippines, The Ivory Coast, Saudi Arabia and more.

Container Loading

Experienced in container loading for long haul transport out of any
UK port, helping you get the most out of the space available.

Pallet Inversion

Specialist pallet inversion and building equipment to transfer your stock from Euro-pallets to UK/Chep pallets or vice versa.

Bonded Facilities

Bonded warehousing available to store and process your product after import.

Our Sites

With locations across the UK, Rick Bestwick are one of Europe’s leading providers of cold storage services to the food manufacturing sector.

With locations across the UK, Rick Bestwick are one of Europe’s leading providers of cold storage services.

View Sites

Chesterfield

A long established added value facility, working closely with manufacturers and major retailers and providing a true just-in-time service, through a comprehensive portfolio of services.

Our Chesterfield site and Headquarters is centrally located just 5 minutes away from Junction 29 of the M1, enabling us to reach 75% of the UK population in under 3 hours.

Liverpool

With over 25,000 pallet locations, including a 13,000 pallet capacity fully automated High Bay, our Liverpool site is ideal for fast moving retail products as well as manufacturing requirements.

The site’s close proximity to the Liverpool Docks makes it ideally located for import and export services and an excellent location for cross-Channel traffic. Its location enables us to offer complete service solutions in collaboration with our long-standing transport partner DFDS, who offer UK & Pan-Europe services out of Dublin.

Scunthorpe

Our largest site with 6 purpose-built, stand-alone coldstores offering 650,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space.

The Scunthorpe site is ideally located for the import and export of goods from Grimsby and Hull Docks and its location in North Lincolnshire, an area renowned for growing some of the best produce in the country, makes it an ideal location to freeze and store fruit and vegetables.

BRC Approved and offering a range of chambers and racking to suit both bulk and fast-moving products, this site has the capacity and flexibility to provide a complete operational solution.

Warrington

This modern, purpose-built facility with over 200,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space, incorporating multi-temperature chambers and mobile racking, is a fast moving distribution centre.

Located just 1.5 miles from major motorways giving easy access to all major retail and wholesale distribution centres, our Warrington site provides well-established consolidation and cross docking services.

A new additional to our Warrington facility is our recently installed blast freezer which brings our group blast freezing capacity to 4500 pallets per week.