Our Premises

We are proud to be located in New Covent Garden Market in South West London - the largest wholesale market in the UK where we occupy two units in the middle of the main market trading area.

 

New Covent Garden Market Harwoods Of London

 

Our units cover just over 2000 square feet internally and 1500 square feet of covered outside loading area.  Our units have been tailor built to our requirements consisting of a very large cold room where we store our fresh produce and made up orders ready for despatch,  a warm room that is used for produce that needs to be ripened or just needs to be stored at higher temperatures, a small walk-in freezer for specialist frozen products that we cannot purchase within the market and a preparation area with digital weighing machines together with solid stainless steel workbenches where our orders are made up.

We also have a small office where our sales team take orders etc.  Our main office activities are carried out at our head office in Kent where all our accounting staff are located.  Please go to our our offices page for their contact numbers and email addresses.

Our premises are fully temperature controlled and monitored by a Thermo Max monitoring system that records temperatures of all our storage and preparation rooms.  The system also stores and archives the records so we can keep a close eye on things at all times during the day or night 52 weeks of the year.

 

Our Premises at New Covent Garden Market

 

We have a fully operational closed circuit television installed at the premises to cover all areas inside and out.  This is monitored at our head office for the safety of our staff and for security when the warehouse is closed.  We are currently in the process of having this made available on our website live where our clients can log in and see what is going on or just want to have a look around.

Picking and Packing

The premises are registered with Wandsworth Borough Council as food premises and were randomly inspected by a food environmental inspector at 4.00 am one morning last March.  He found everything and more to his complete satisfaction.  You may view or download this report on the link below.  Following this inspection we were added to the "scores on doors scheme".  This is a pilot scheme supported by the Food Standards Agency where food businesses are rated between one and five stars depending on how well they are complying with the food hygiene law.  We  reached the highest score of five stars.  To view the certificate or find out more about the scheme please click on the link below.

5 Star Rated food hygeine

You can see the report here.

You can view the certificate here.

 

Our premises have an in-house fully documented cleaning schedule.  To view this click here

Pest control is also monitored on a regular basis by a specialist company. Our contract and inspection report examples are available to view.

Finally, if you would like to visit our premises please feel free to do so at any time. You don’t have to make an appointment, you won't be disappointed as we are fortunate that our staff take a pride in their place of work.