Magnavale, Felix and Freshlinc Announce Tri-Partner Alliance to Tackle Food Waste Across the UK Cold Chain

We are pleased to announce a new tri-partner alliance between Magnavale, Felix, and Freshlinc, bringing together three of the UK’s most respected names in cold chain and food redistribution. The partnership combines our expertise in cold storage, charitable food redistribution, and refrigerated transport, creating a seamlessly integrated solution for rescuing surplus food and getting it to those who need it most across the country.

The alliance arrives at a critical time. Household budgets remain under sustained pressure across the UK, and the food industry is under increasing pressure to eliminate waste from the supply chain. This partnership offers a practical and immediately impactful response.

A natural alliance of shared values

Magnavale, Felix, and Freshlinc have each independently built their reputations on efficiency, responsibility, and reducing the environmental and social cost of food waste. This formal alignment transforms a shared area of interest into a structured, long-term operational partnership.

Magnavale brings to the alliance its national cold storage network, spanning four strategically located facilities at Chesterfield, Easton, Scunthorpe, and Warrington, with a combined capacity exceeding 325,000 pallet positions. This includes our fully automated facility at Easton, which opened in February 2025 and provides 101,000 pallet spaces. This infrastructure is now a direct enabler of large-scale food rescue operations.

Felix, launched earlier this year following the merger of FareShare and The Felix Project, works with the food industry to rescue good-to-eat surplus food that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste. The charity redistributes this food through a nationwide network of more than 8,000 community organisations, supporting 1.5 million people a year.

Freshlinc completes the alliance, providing the critical link between storage and destination. As one of the UK’s most trusted temperature-controlled haulage businesses, Freshlinc operates a modern fleet capable of moving chilled and frozen product safely, compliantly, and at scale.

Why this partnership matters

The UK food industry generates substantial surplus every year, arising from overproduction, seasonal demand fluctuations, specification changes, and short shelf-life situations. Much of this product is good quality and nutritionally valuable, yet without the infrastructure and logistics capability to intercept and redistribute it at speed, it is too often lost to waste.

Magnavale’s network is positioned to function as a holding and marshalling point for surplus frozen, ambient, and chilled food, with the scale to absorb large, short-notice volumes. Freshlinc provides the transport capability to move that product onward rapidly, while Felix provides the end-to-end charitable network and frontline connections required to ensure the food reaches people in genuine need. Together, the three partners create something none could achieve alone: a cold chain purpose-built for good.

Looking ahead

The alliance establishes an operational and governance framework covering surplus food intake, storage, collection scheduling, and onward distribution. All three organisations have committed to measuring and reporting on the social and environmental impact of the partnership, tracking volumes of food redistributed, meals provided, and carbon emissions avoided.

For Magnavale, this partnership reflects our broader purpose as a business. As one of the UK’s most significant pieces of cold chain infrastructure, we have always understood that our role extends beyond commercial storage; we are a critical component of the national food system. We will continue to share updates as the alliance develops, but if you would like to find out more, please get in touch.