Named for the hills on Swindon's doorstep.
The Cotswolds begin just north of our offices, and they gave the company its name when we set up in 2008. The business has stayed close to those roots ever since: a Wiltshire trading house dealing in agricultural goods, with working relationships that reach far beyond the county.
We are deliberately a small, senior team. The person who quotes your load is the person who books it, follows it and answers for it. No handovers, no account managers reading from someone else's notes.
One desk, start to finish.
Quoted by a principal
Every enquiry is priced by someone senior enough to commit to it. If we quote it, we can book it, and we stand behind it.
Booked by the same person
The trader who priced your load arranges the haulage, the shipping and the documents. Nothing is lost between departments, because there are no departments to lose it between.
Seen through to delivery
We track the load until it lands, and we are the ones you call if anything needs sorting. One name, one number, one answer.
The standards behind every trade.
Honest grading
Goods are described as they actually are, not as the market would like them to be. Buyers get what they were promised; sellers get a fair account of what they sent.
Right-first-time paperwork
Contracts, shipping documents and customs entries done properly the first time. In this trade, tidy paperwork is the difference between a load that moves and a load that sits.
Long relationships
Many of our growers, shippers and buyers have traded with us for well over a decade. We would rather protect a relationship than win a single sharp deal.
Nearly two decades of settled trades.
Markets have tightened, loosened and turned upside down since we started, and the business has traded through all of it. That experience shows in the quiet things: knowing which origins hold their quality, which routes run on time and which problems are worth a phone call before they become problems.
It is not a complicated formula. Buy well, grade honestly, keep the paperwork straight and be there next season. It has worked since 2008 and we see no reason to change it.
See our networkEstablished 2008
Cotswold Trading, incorporated 7 January 2008. A real trading record, not a startup story.
Swindon based
Gemini House, Hargreaves Road, on the edge of the hills that named us.
Senior team
The person quoting your load is the person booking it. Decisions are made on the first call.
UK and overseas
Import, export and wholesale, handled by people who move goods across borders every week.
Talk to the desk.
Email us with what you have or what you need and we will come back with a straight answer, usually the same day. Phone lines: 01793 295185.