written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . january 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message a.m. widdowson & son ltd. type private company genre logistics founded 1902 founder mr a.m. widdowson headquarters glenfield leicestershire england united kingdom number of locations 4 area served worldwide key people peter stevenson md harry hawksworth td john hawksworth cd arnaud arhainx fd services logistics transport warehouse freight garage service rework contract packing lgv hgv flt training pallet repair revenue 24 000 000 pa 2013 owner widdowson family number of employees 330 2013 website widdowson group.com widdowson group s first commercial motorised vehicle . a commercial vehicle in 2008 outside main reception . 2011 widdowson group vehicle and trailer livery . 2013 widdowson group liveried scania p320 lorry widdowson group is a family owned and operated company in the british logistics industry . 1 they offer various services based around the logistics industry but are better known for the road transportation services . contents 1 history 2 divisions 3 locations 4 memberships and affiliates 5 references 6 external links history edit established in the early 1900s as a.m. widdowson and son the widdowson group haulage business worked as a very local company moving coal within the leicester area . by the late 1980s the company expanded into an organisation that was providing services throughout the whole of great britain . today they operate through six separate trading divisions logistics warehousing contract packing transport freight forwarding pallet repair garage services and a commercial training academy . divisions edit traffic transport haulage groupage deliveries road transport is the biggest division of the widdowson group with a fleet with over 130 vehicles most being scania 2 3 some being iveco . 4 the fleet extends from panic vans to 44 tonne artics and includes over 200 trailers . the division operates as two functions groupage and full loads . full loads is where an entire vehicle is loaded for a single purpose usually a single delivery . groupage works on the basis of multi client and multi drops for a vehicle . warehouse warehousing storage the warehouse division based over several sites 5 and rivals the traffic division for the biggest turnover . the widdowson group have three warehouse sites operating over 700 000 sq. ft. of warehousing offering dedicated or shared user storage facilities in racked or bulk configuration on a contractual or short term basis . the warehouse systems utilise edi solutions with integrated rf and barcode scanning in their wms supplied by road tech . clarification needed widdowson group often tailor warehousing solutions to the customers they are dealing with for historical customer pepsico the widdowson group dedicated a whole warehouse for that client . where as the warehousing service offered to united biscuits was that they stored pallets of their products goods amongst other customer s pallets . freight international freight freight forwarding world shipping the freight office offers a range of international services such as import export and bonded warehousing . garage vehicle maintenance originally established to maintain and service widdowson s own fleet of vehicles and trailers the garage division is now an established commercial vehicle center . the widdowson group also offers personal car repairs for friends and family of the widdowson group . contract pack rework added value contract packing reverse logistics hand assembly this is the fastest 6 growing division of the widdowson group concentrating on added value tasks such as the repackaging barcoding inspection and labeling of goods . an example of the contract packing 7 8 operation is when the widdowson group package christmas gift packs for boots uk the contract packing department takes the raw products often toiletries and packs them into a decorative gift box along with extra gift items like socks . training training school driver training the commercial training academy 9 offer lgv c c e courses and flt training to both paying public looking to start a new career private companies looking to develop internal staff and internally to train and retrain staff . one of the main focuses of the internal aspect of the training department is to improve the lorry drivers emissions . pallet repair the widdowson group generates a profit from a pallet repair operation 10 where teams of its staff repair damaged pallets to be used again . locations edit glenfield leicester . braunstone leicester bardon coalville . memberships and affiliates edit bsi ukwa rha bifa bcmpa rmif dsa widdowson group have been executive box holders at leicester city f.c. since the 1990s and are one of the longest serving executive box holders at the club . widdowson group were part of the consortium of 55 parties led by gary lineker who invested money to rescue the club from administration in 2003 . 11 references edit http www.consulting.xerox.com case studies widdowson enus.html http www.keltruck.com about keltruck news centre widdowson.asp http www.keltruck.co.uk about keltruck news centre fleetadditionswillkeepfirmontherightroad.asp http www.logismarket.co.uk iveco iveco stralis wins 1248509657 345914843 nd.html http www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk other wip55780.htm http www.packagingeurope.com packaging europe news 43268 contract pack at packaging innovations london offers the complete package.html http www.packagingeurope.com packaging europe news 42957 widdowson group processes more than a million gift packs a year for blue tree.html http www.mhwmagazine.co.uk latestnews widdowson promotes quality contract packing services at easyfairs packaging innovations 10593.html http dsa.gov.uk lgvreg.asp id sxc05f a78284b0 & cat 324 http www.logisticsmanager.com articles 11388 ipp logipal extends uk operation.html http www.investegate.co.uk article.aspx id 200702131249581789r external links edit http www.widdowson group.com http www.widdowson group.co.uk http www.mhwmagazine.co.uk news item.asp id 4222 http www.industrialfocus.co.uk page.php issue 4376 http www.xerox.com downloads world x xgs cs widdowson gb.pdf http www.poferrymasters.com news biggerukhubsignalsgrowthforpofm retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title widdowson group & oldid 669245713 categories companies of the united kingdomhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from january 2012all articles with a promotional tonewikipedia articles needing clarification from january 2012 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 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