Gregory Group

One of the UK's largest transport, warehousing and distribution companies. #DeliveringWinners

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Ahead of #NationalLogisticsDay tomorrow which celebrates the important role the logistics sector plays, today's #FridayFact is all about logistics in the UK. And it consists of a bumper crop of 5 facts!

#FF #UKLogistics #DeliveringWinners

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2025 marks John Gregory's 40th year at the helm of the business. For today's #ThrowbackThursday we interviewed John to look back on the last 40 years, but to also get his views on the future. 

https://t.co/9slpga8Bp9

#TT #OurHistory #LongtermCareer #DeliveringWinners

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Over the season, our Craib team will deliver 880,000 pints of beer to Lords Cricket Ground on behalf of our customer, @Brewdog. 

#FridayFact #FF #OurCustomers #DeliveringWinners

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🏆 We've been selected as a 2025 preferred carrier because we have consistently provided high quality data to our customers. We are among 2% of global carriers to be given this accolade by @project44. 🥳

#DeliveringWinners

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Here's a snippet of what our Learning & Development team get up to. On this day they were training new employees on the safe use of PPT (Powered Pallet Trucks).

#training #learninganddevelopment #deliveringwinners

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🎉Congratulations to 7 of our Transport Operations Supervisor Apprentices who each passed their Transport Manager CPC exams this month. 👏

#DevelopingOurPeople #CareerDevelopment #LogisticsApprenticeships #DeliveringWinners

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Due to their size and the amount of time spent on the road, an HGV windscreen is three times more prone to stone chips than a car. This means, on average, 1 in 4 HGVs will need a windscreen fix, or replacement, every year.

#FridayFact #FF #HGVmaintenance #DeliveringWinners

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Today's #ThrowbackThursday takes us back to 1952. A time when acquisitions were announced in the local newspaper. At this time, acquisitions were a tactical way to secure new A licences. Read more here: https://t.co/v07z3Ozqah

#TT #ourheritage #DeliveringWinners

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From driving coaches to driving lorries. Find out why Bev, one of our HGV drivers, made the switch. Bev also shares what she enjoys most about the job and the advice she would give a new driver.

#ourpeople #employeespotlight #truckinglife #deliveringwinners

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Today is #WorldSleepDay and given 35% of our drivers spend approximately half of their time sleeping in their cabs, we thought we'd find out more about life on the road. 

https://t.co/pjZEL89o6O

#TruckingLife #EmployeeSpotlight #DeliveringWinners

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We are delighted to announce that Gregory Group has acquired John Mitchell (Grangemouth) Ltd (JMGL).  Read more here: https://t.co/hAMeEqfIe0

#acquisition #logistics #transportation #warehousing #deliveringwinners

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This milk tanker holds enough milk to make 760,000 pancakes! That's a lot of pancakes! 🥞 🥛

#ShroveTuesday #PancakeDay #FunFacts #milkcollection #SupportingTheDairyIndustry

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During the 1930s, these two Bedford tippers were added to the Gregory Group fleet for use on local council road building work. The sign above the sliding doors says "AJ Gregory, Haulier, Coal Merchant, Cattle Transporter".

#ThrowbackThursday #TT #ourheritage #vintagetrucks

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For one customer which produces soft drinks, our team at Cribbs Causeway in Bristol despatched 25.6 million cases last year. On average, that's over 70,000 cases a day! That's a lot of drinks! 🥤

#FridayFact #FF #OurCustomers #warehousing #DeliveringWinners

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By 2002 the brown livery of Gregory Distribution had become a familiar sight in the South West of Scotland as the working relationship between Hayton Coulthard and Gregory Distribution evolved. By 2010 a joint venture was established.

#OurHeritage #History #DeliveringWinners

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This is a warehouse full of empty cans. They are manufactured by our client and we store and distribute them to their clients ready to be filled. Last year, we handled a whopping 912 billion cans on their behalf!

#FridayFact #warehousing #storage #logistics #DeliveringWinners

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Our Employee Award winners will be announced tomorrow. Good luck to all our finalists, each of whom have been nominated by their peers because they have made a notable difference to our business.

#GregoryGroupEmployeeAwards #CelebratingOurPeople #DeliveringWinners

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In 1947 Jack Gregory joined the family business at the age of 22 following 7 years working at a bank. He told himself that once he'd made over £1,000 he would feel he was on the way!

#throwbackthursday #TBT #OurHeritage #DeliveringWinners

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Last year we travelled 150 million kms (or 93,000 miles). That's the equivalent of travelling around the world 3,734 times!

#FridayFact #FF #deliveringwinners

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This is Archie Gregory with an S Type Bedford (known as a 'Big Bedford') petrol flatbed. The photo was taken at Fore Street, North Tawton in the 50s after the army returned the site following requisition during the war.

#throwbackthursday #tbt #ourheritage #DeliveringWinners