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Scaling warehouse operations with quality and consistency at Albion Fine Foods

Albion Fine Foods is a leading wholesale provider of fine ingredients and artisanal produce to the hospitality sector. With an expanding client base and increasing order volumes, their warehouse operations needed to be agile, reliable, and scalable.

Challenge

Albion Fine Foods was facing critical workforce challenges at a time of major expansion. As they prepared to onboard over 200 new clients, their existing hiring efforts failed to provide the reliability, quality, or consistency they needed to keep pace with growing demand.

Their main challenges were:

  • Lack of worker quality: Previous recruitment efforts often resulted in underqualified or inconsistent staff, impacting productivity.
  • Workforce instability: High churn and no dependable base of workers made it difficult to scale efficiently during peak periods.
  • Demand vs capacity: With client requests increasing, their stretched warehouse team couldn’t fulfil all incoming orders.
  • Need for temp-to-perm hiring: Long-term business growth required a mix of flexible and permanent staff who could integrate into core teams.

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How did Coople help?

Coople implemented a strategic staffing model to help Albion Fine Foods stabilise their workforce and ramp up capacity. By first addressing quality and consistency, Coople built a core pool of favourite Cooplers who quickly became trusted contributors in the warehouse. These workers were repeatedly booked for high-volume and peak shifts, ensuring stability and minimising training overhead.

Alongside flexible favourites, Coople also sourced reliable temp-to-perm workers across key job roles – two of whom have already transitioned into permanent contracts. This blended model provided both immediate flexibility and long-term workforce investment.

The results were impressive: in just the first year, 11,000 hours were fulfilled across 1,388 shifts, with 69% of those filled by favourites. Albion Fine Foods has since expanded Coople’s remit, making Coople their sole staffing supplier across multiple departments, and continues to trust the platform for fast and consistent hiring.

Delivering scale, stability and success through quality staffing.

Consistent, high-volume fulfilment.
11,000 hours completed in year one – keeping operations running smoothly during rapid expansion.
Favourites driving performance.
69% of shifts filled by trusted favourites, reducing onboarding and boosting productivity.
Temp-to-perm success.
Permanent hires made from Coople’s pool, ensuring long-term team integration.
Sole trusted supplier.
Coople now leads recruitment across multiple functions thanks to proven performance.
Speed and reliability.
From warehouse operatives to drivers, Coople consistently delivered fast, high-quality hires.

Building a dependable workforce to meet growing demand.

By working with Coople, Albion Fine Foods successfully built a reliable, high-quality workforce that could flex with operational needs. Through a mix of favourites and temp-to-perm hires, they achieved consistent fulfilment, reduced churn, and unlocked capacity for growth – making Coople a key partner in their ongoing success.

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