Company Shop Visits Altitude to Explore Surplus Collaboration Opportunities

Last month, Lamar White and Chris Abram from our Commercial Support welcomed representatives from the Company Shop to our Altitude site. We offered our guests a detailed tour of both our operations and product range and explored potential opportunities for us to work together on surplus redistribution.

During the visit, our guests were particularly impressed with the breadth of produce we handle daily, and there were even discussions regarding a collaboration with us involving surplus top fruit, stone fruit and citrus products.

About Company Shop

Company Shop is one of the UK’s re-distributors of surplus food and household goods in the UK. By working closely with major retailers, manufacturers, and brands, they help ensure that stock, including fresh produce, short-dated foods, toiletries, and household goods, can be repurposed and resold instead of going to landfill. The organisation operates nationally through a network of membership-only stores, where products are offered to customers at significantly reduced prices.

What makes Company Shop different is its ability to provide a home for stock which usually has a short shelf life, packaging errors, seasonal overproduction, or discontinued lines.

The Wider Impact: Community Shop

As part of the Company Shop Group, the company also owns Community Shop, which sells its products to those who are on benefits or who face food insecurity. There are currently over ten Community Shop locations across the UK, where offers eligible members essential products at heavily discounted rates—often 70–90% cheaper than standard retail prices.

Next Steps

Serving our local communities both at home and abroad has always been at the heart of our business so we’re excited by the potential to work more closely with both the Company Shop and the Community Shop as part of our ongoing efforts to reduce food waste, support local communities, and maximise the value of every product we grow, pack and supply through our network.

Together, we can take another step toward creating a more circular, sustainable supply chain that benefits us all.