About

Fresh Experts

Established over 30 years ago, Oliver Kay are wholesale suppliers of fresh food and ingredients, delivering fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy, fish, meat and dry store ingredients daily, to chefs and caterers.

We serve customers both locally and nationally throughout England, Scotland and Wales, from our centre of operations in Bradford and through a series of strategically situated distribution hubs around the UK.

We work with some of the best growers, producers, and suppliers in Britain and around the world.

Delivered Fresh

Field Fresh Ingredients

Our modern and efficient fully temperature-controlled warehouse provides ideal storage conditions so we can maintain the ‘field fresh’ condition that our customers demand.

Our sites are BRC accredited, offering further reassurance of our quality processes.

We constantly review our processes and this continual improvement program has led to recent investments right across the business, enabling us to offer our customers an even better service.

Quality Assurance

Growing Relationships

Our work at Oliver Kay is all about nurturing close relationships between our growers and customers.

We work closely with our suppliers to enable us to react to the needs of our customers and get them the best produce when it’s in season and at its freshest.

The close relationships we have with our farmers gives us access to the best of their crop at their best prices. And the close relationships we have with our customers means we’re always on the lookout for something new.

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Seasonal Tastes

We passionately believe that food in season is food at its most delicious.

Working with our buyers and growers, we compile concise and informative Crop Reports to help you make the most of the produce that’s coming into season next, and when you can expect it.

If there’s a shortage, whether, through disease or environmental issues, we’ll keep you in the loop and let you know which products and varieties to avoid.

Read Our Crop Report

Our business is managed independently by the Oliver Kay team and continues to supply both independent and national customers around Britain. Oliver Kay continues to sit within Bidfresh, part of Bidcorp and sister company to Bidfood, offering financial security and reassurance to customers.

In 2020, Oliver Kay we moved our head office from Bolton to Bradford, with additional sites around England and Scotland, enabling full coverage of the country.

As fresh produce supplier of choice for Bidfood, moving to an existing Bidfood depot provided the business with national fresh delivery capabilities on a daily basis.

Bidfresh Limited was created in 2010 when Bidvest (a public owned business in South Africa) purchased Seafood Holdings Limited in the UK. Bidvest saw the benefits in the model adopted by Seafood Holdings and decided to create similar businesses in meat and produce. In 2012 Bidfresh acquired Oliver Kay. Bidvest unbundled its food service assets on 30th May 2016 into Bidcorp Limited which is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Bidcorp Limited’s (‘Bidcorp’) listing provides shareholders with the opportunity to participate directly in Bidcorp’s foodservice operations as well as enabling the business to achieve its strategic goals. Bidfresh has since acquired a number of businesses in meat and produce across the UK.

Get In Touch

If you have an enquiry about our product range or service offering, please feel free to contact us via the form below or via our contact page. Should you wish to become a customer please complete the ‘Become a Customer’ form and one of our team will be in touch. Thank you