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QU: What do twenty 10 year olds, a time capsule and a frozen fish have in common? ANS: They were all involved in a School’s visit to Yearsley Group’s head office. Harwood Park School, in Heywood, contacted frozen food sales and logistic company, Yearsley Group, to see if they could look round the cold store […]

Yearsley Group has been announced as the preferred UK provider of frozen logistics for CSM, the world’s largest bakery supplier. Following a competitive tender, the 10,000 pallet contract will see CSM store more than 300 finished frozen products with Yearsley Group, including a variety of brands of cookies, muffins, brownies and doughnuts from November 2012. […]

Yearsley Group has now formally purchased the business and assets of Partner Logistics Hams Hall Ltd following the operation of the business on licence from July. The Group has also acquired the freehold of the Hams Hall warehouse from Ropemaker Properties Ltd. This now secures Yearsley Group’s commitment to the future of Hams Hall and […]

Further investment in roof-mounted solar panel installations. Yearsley Group, the UK’s largest cold storage and distribution provider, have installed solar panels at a further five of its cold stores in England. These installations bring the group’s total use to 8,997 panels across 7 of its 13 depots, generating 1,753,000 kilowatt hours per annum with a […]

Centrally located cold store takes pallet capacity to 320,000. Yearsley Group has added a 200,000 sq ft cold storage facility in the Midlands to its portfolio as the company seeks to improve its service offering to retailers. Agent Barton Kendal, acting on behalf of Yearsley Group, has agreed the purchase of the automated cold store […]

Ground breaking ceremony as work starts on new Heywood “Super Hub” Yearsley Group managing director Harry Yearsley has welcomed Rochdale’s Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor James Gartside and Councillor Jane Gartside, to help celebrate the official ‘ground breaking’ as work begins on the group’s £20million expansion in Heywood. The 13.6 acre site, adjacent to the group’s […]

The man at the helm of cold storage and food sales giant the Yearsley Group tells all on how a successful family business can be run. To read full article click here.

Yearsley Group’s acquisition adding value for customers. IcePak, the seafood sales division of the Yearsley Group, has launched a trio of new product lines, offering customers a guaranteed supply of three of the most popular products for wholesalers. The 777-branded block cooked and peeled prawns, a range of prepared baby squid and a variety of […]

Recently-launched ‘ambient store’ secures major contract Young’s Seafood Limited, the leading provider of chilled and frozen fish and seafood, has become the first major manufacturer to take advantage of Yearsley Group’s new ambient storage facility, after signing a deal to take space at the Grimsby depot. The UK seafood specialist, which has three manufacturing facilities […]

Arctic conditions for Blue Peter presenters’ challenge. It was just another day at the office for Blue Peter’s young adventurer Helen Skelton when she joined presenting partner Barney Harwood for a frozen filming session in Manchester this week. The pair donned thermal suits for the 30-second segment, filmed at Yearsley Group’s 165,000 sq ft cold […]