Company Shop Group

Company Profile

Company Shop Group is the UK’s leading and longest-standing redistributor and retailer of surplus stock, partnering with the industry to transform waste into opportunities for positive change and doing good for people and planet.

In a world where over a third of food produced globally goes to waste – 10.7 million tonnes a year in the UK alone – while whole communities, nearly 10 million people in the UK, are living in food poverty, there is clearly an urgent need for solutions on these two important issues.

The go-to solution for surplus redistribution
The Group’s mission is clear: to be the UK’s go-to solution for surplus redistribution, ensuring no good product goes to waste. Every potentially wasted product presents an opportunity – an opportunity for change, for sustainability and for creating value across the supply chain. Whether it’s food, household goods or clothing, if it can be eaten, used or worn, Company Shop Group can redistribute it and transform it, recouping the value for the industry.

A unique and scalable Model
Through their unique and scalable model, Company Shop Group paves the way for a sustainable future, one solution at a time. Their established partnerships with over 800 organisations across the UK supply chain helps them manage and process surplus efficiently and profitably. By partnering with businesses to reduce waste and redistribute surplus, the Group creates positive social, environmental and financial outcomes.

Doing good for people, planet and stock partners
As a for-profit commercial retailer, with its network of Company Shop ‘surplus supermarkets’, surplus which would have been wasted is redistributed and sold at discounted prices to its members who meet a specific criteria to join. The commercial arm of the business then supports and invests in its not-for-profit social enterprise, a multi-functional social supermarket, Community Shop, which aims to tackle the root causes of food insecurity in the UK’s most deprived communities by providing access to deeply discounted food and essentials, whilst delivering life-changing personal development programmes. And with innovative solutions for surplus intervention at its industry-leading operations site, transforming imperfect products into perfectly good, there’s almost no surplus the Group cannot handle.

Member Benefit: BFFF members within the FMCG industry can access free membership with Company Shop Group: https://www.companyshop.co.uk/membership