bristol website uk site irish site french site spanish site australian site dutch site portuguese site german site nisbets headquarters 4th way avonmouth nisbets new warehouse access 18 avonmouth knife display in nisbets london store covent garden london nisbets flagship store in bristol city centre nisbets is the uk s leading mail order company for catering equipment and catering supplies . 1 based in avonmouth bristol nisbets has expanded across multiple countries in europe and oceania . contents 1 background 2 history 3 product range 4 references background edit the original idea came from a small business peter nisbet bought in 1967 . the business supplied knife sets to catering colleges in the south west . years later in 1987 andrew nisbet peter nisbet s son identified a potential gap in the catering equipment market distributing to the trade through catalogue direct marketing . the company was based in prewett street redcliff at that time . by 1986 nisbets was large enough to warrant a move to a new site and moved just a mile north east in bristol to waterloo street in old market where it operated until 1995 . nisbets moved to aztec west in 1995 and then to fourth way in avonmouth in 2004 . the concept of next day delivery became central to the business . the company now supplies restaurants cafes bars pubs hotels the professional chef caterers in fact anyone preparing and serving food to the public . with over 2000 employees and revenues of 300 million worldwide nisbets is considered europe s largest supplier of catering equipment . 2 history edit 1953 peter nisbet starts selling hotelware in south west england . 1967 nisbets starts specialising in student kits 1987 the first mail order catalogue was launched . 3 1990 nisbets acquired red ball which soon became the wholesale division of nisbets known as rb distributors . 1996 nisbets ireland was opened in cork . 2000 nisbets opens in the netherlands . 2004 nisbets headquarters moves to avonmouth bristol . 2005 nisbets france is launched . the french head office is at combs la ville to the south of paris . 2007 nisbets spain is launched with an office and distribution center . 2008 new warehouse and office were built at access 18 avonmouth . 2009 nisbets took over the famous london catering equipment store pages based on shaftesbury avenue . 2010 nisbets launched in australia by acquiring caterers warehouse an established catering equipment business . two stores at erina and castle hill sydney were occupied and a new shop opened at smeaton grange . 2012 in march a new nisbets store opened in birmingham leading to the extension of the retail business . 2014 australian head office moved from smeaton grange to campbelltown new south wales including a 35 000 sqm distribution centre 2015 awarded best equipment distributor in restaurant magazine s chef s choice awards for the fifth consecutive year . 4 product range edit nisbets supply kitchen products to trade and home users . their product range covers everything from heavy duty items for bigger catering institutions such as warewashing machines refrigerators and cooking machines to smaller items such as beverage machines blenders and food preparation machines . they also supply ranges of cutlery crockery glassware buffet display and barware as well as essential kitchen supplies like knives utensils cookware pastry items clothing and furniture . 5 references edit equipped to deliver on its next day promise for the catering trade . the times . http www.nisbets.co.uk aboutus static.raction http www.nisbets.co.uk ourstory static.raction http www.bighospitality.co.uk events awards chefs choice awards 2015 winners revealed http www.nisbets.co.uk aboutus static.raction customer feedback live customer reviews retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nisbets & oldid 743585783 categories catering and food service companies of the united kingdommail order retailerscompanies based in bristolhidden categories use dmy dates from january 2016use british english from january 2016pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 08 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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