For more than 100 years our Buyers have worked to create partnerships with the world's leading food suppliers, to ensure that we are always able to supply you, and your customers, with the products that they need at the best price!

How we work...

Our Buying team works closely with leading suppliers and manufacturers both at home and abroad to bring together an extensive range of quality products to bring your menu to life. As a nationwide company, dbc are able to buy in significant volumes which allows us to negotiate and deliver to you the best food deals around, at the most competitive price.

As important to you and your customers as the value of their meals, is how the ingredients are sourced, what they contain, how they are produced and how healthy they are? Our expert Buying team take our responsibilities to our customers, and to your diners, very seriously indeed. That's why we have formed working partnerships with producers, suppliers and distributors, on both local and global levels, to ensure that we deliver on these promises to you.

Sustainable Procurement

We recognise the social, economical and environmental benefits of sourcing products from local suppliers and our Buyers work hard to identify, develop and support local suppliers for the benefit of our local customers.

Fairtrade

Globally, as a responsible organisation, we recognise the long term benefits which the Fairtrade Foundation delivers by supporting farmers and workers in the developing world with the provision of decent working conditions, fair terms of trade and ultimately better prices for their produce.

We have global agreements with a number of organisations who support such practices and consequently we stock a range of Fairtrade products which we make available to all of our customers.

Organic Produce

We actively support our customers who choose to buy produce which delivers health benefits for their diners, is less disruptive on the environment in which it is produced and maintains the highest standards of farming and animal husbandry.

As part of a program to encourage and develop sales of organic products, our Buyers have formed agreements with specialist suppliers of organic products providing a wide range of fresh produce and meat for customers and diners who choose to support ethical farming and rearing practices for health and welfare benefits.

Our resources and team...

The Buying team are a dedicated group of professional, procurement individuals with extensive knowledge and experience within the UK food industry. Many of our buyers have worked directly within the specialist business sectors which we supply to, so we understand your customers and their needs.

All of our buying members are either 'home grown' internally within our business or are recruited externally from companies and organisations within the food industry. All of our employees will undertake an extensive training programme to ensure that they understand and will follow our company values and practices of sourcing quality food at competitive prices!

If you require additional information on our methods of sourcing products, buying practices, the development of our local and global supplier agreements, or simply if you have a requirement for goods which we don't currently stock, you can speak to one of our experienced Account Managers at your local depot who will pass your request on to one of our Buyers.