1895-2020: Celebrating 125 years in business
Inspiring
future generations
We’re a fourth generation, family-owned business, with origins stretching back to the 1890s. Today, we primarily invest in food companies operating in various segments of the industry. As custodians of these companies, we’re not about the short term – our core aim is to build and improve them for future.
Building on a pioneering
and visionary history
The foundations of Vestey Holdings date back to the 1890s when brothers William and Edmund Vestey established the Union Cold Storage Company in Liverpool. Pioneering and visionary, the entrepreneurial spirit of our forefathers continues to influence the way we run our business today.
Explore our Businesses
WISK
WISK is a global pantry, provider and circle of passionate producers and exacting chefs. We do more than provide produce – we source inspiration by feeding your imagination, finding unusual variants, supporting specialities and sourcing the rarest products. Inspiration can come from anywhere but, wherever you are, we will make sure it finds its way to you.
Albion Fine Foods
With Albion Fine Foods based in Kent, we deliver premium ingredients to UK chefs across London and in the South East. We have over 4,000 products and a range that is always growing. We supply: dairy, frozen and dry goods, and some quirky specialist items.
Vestey Foods
Food production, sourcing and distribution has been at the heart of our family business from the very beginning in the 1890s. Today, Vestey Foods companies import and distribute over 180,000 mt of food products each year. We remain a key partner for hundreds of producers, retailers, foodservices, wholesalers and governments in over 70 countries.
Cottage Delight
Based in the Staffordshire Moorlands for over 40 years, Cottage Delight provides the UK’s farm shops, garden centres and independent retailers with a selection of fine jams, pickles, biscuits and cakes for which we have been awarded over 160 Great Taste awards.
Donald Russell
Donald Russell is a Royal Warrant holding butcher from Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. Champion of traditional craft butchery and supplier to the best hotels and restaurants around the world, it is the largest ‘Direct to Consumer’ meat company in the UK, delivering to thousands of discerning home customers.
Western Pension Solutions
While we are a food business, over time, we have built an expertise in pensions based on the excellent work of our in-house team. Our pensions consultancy was created so that other family-owned companies can benefit from quality strategic advice on how to manage their legacy defined benefit schemes.
