Wholesaler News

The first category guide of 2025 is here – with a fresh look and feel, the new Impulse Guide from Plan for Profit is a simple, effective tool that highlights Core Range products and Bestsellers across Impulse categories, helping Independent Retailers maximise sales and profitability. New for 2025 The Impulse Guide is now available for free. You can […]

Unitas and Fareshare, once again came together at connect25 to make a tangible difference in communities across Merseyside. Through the generosity of our suppliers, we successfully donated 18 pallets of food, equating to an incredible 6.5 tonnes—enough to provide over 15,476 meals to those who need them most. Over the course of connect25, a dedicated […]

More than 650 suppliers, wholesalers and service providers gathered in Liverpool for the Unitas Connect Awards, our annual celebration of the best people, products, initiatives and achievements of the last year. The awards evening, a highlight in the buying group’s packed calendar of member and supplier events, was hosted this year by TV presenter and […]

Unitas Wholesale members will share more than £2m in incremental revenue in return for their participation in the group’s central promotions, publications and events. The More for More incentive, revealed by managing director John Kinney at the Unitas Wholesale connect25 trade show in Liverpool, will help drive engagement, execution and compliance in supplier partnership activities. […]

The Scottish Wholesale Achievers Awards celebrated its 22nd anniversary yesterday evening, Thursday 20th February 2025 at the O2 Academy in Edinburgh. The awards highlight and reward best practice, outstanding performance and innovation across all areas of the wholesale trade in Scotland and the evening saw Unitas members recognised in an impressive eight awards! Congratulations to […]

Further to the sad news of the passing of Dudley Ramsden, we would like to share details of the arrangements to celebrate his life. A small, private cremation will be held with the family in attendance. Following this, the family warmly invites you to a Celebration of Dudley’s Life, an opportunity for all who knew […]

Unitas Wholesale, the UK’s largest wholesale buying and services group, held a briefing for senior representatives from the UK’s leading food and drink brands to thank them for their collaboration during 2024 and sharing the group’s plans for 2025 and beyond. At the event, which was held at The Grand, Birmingham on Tuesday 28 January, […]

1. INCREDIBLE SCALE Unitas is the UK’s biggest wholesale buying group, the combined turnover of our membership is equivalent to the next four biggest groups combined.  That means we are able to use this scale to give members access to a tier of suppliers’ terms that are unavailable anywhere else in the independent wholesale marketplace.  What’s more, unlike […]

Members have collectively saved £2.97m on non-resale purchases such as stationery, energy, packaging and payment solutions since signing up to Unitas Procurement. The service, a partnership with the cost, procurement and carbon specialist Auditel, negotiates preferential rates and service levels on purchases, and reduces the time members’ teams spend on sourcing deals. Rather than simply […]

Providing expert support and guidance for independent retailers to run successful, profitable stores, Plan for Profit has long been a one-stop resource for the sector and has now further extended its resources to include its first reduced risk guidance for retailers. With significant changes proposed for the tobacco and vaping category from April 2025, the […]