Sherwood Foods

Sherwood Foods: online butchery and wholesale meat supply from Northern Ireland

Sherwood Foods is a meat supplier that combines a direct-to-consumer online shop with a wholesale operation aimed at food businesses. The company was founded in 2008 by a third-generation butcher who trained in retail butcher shops across London before moving to Smithfield Meat Market as a trainee salesman, following his father and grandfather into the trade. During that period he sold fresh carcass beef from Ireland, fresh UK lamb, frozen New Zealand lamb and vacuum-packed beef from South America.

The business later shifted toward working with larger BRC-approved factories supplying wholesale meat cuts, and today it builds its own Sherwood brand of specialist cuts in close cooperation with production and packing teams.

What the online shop sells

The retail side offers a growing range of meat cuts for next-day home delivery or same-day click & collect at the company's Crawley depot. The catalogue is organised around beef, pork, chicken, lamb, turkey, cooked meats and barbecue products, alongside meat boxes and a Christmas selection. Individual listings include grass-fed tomahawk steak, beef cheeks, flank steak, baby back pork ribs, chicken fillets in 2 kg bulk packs, bratwurst sausages and smoked pork sausages with cheese.

The company presents its model as selling larger cuts at lower prices, with the stated aim of giving customers more meat for their money. It also describes efforts to reduce plastic use and rely on renewable green energy in pursuit of a lower carbon footprint.

Wholesale and trade supply

For food businesses, Sherwood Foods supplies wholesale meat cuts direct from production facilities. The range covers standard primal cuts as well as bespoke products made to order, including minced, diced or sliced meats in larger volumes and custom-sized burgers. The company states that long-established, sustainable herds local to production give it the breadth needed to combine volume with quality.

Its customer base includes takeaway and delivery-focused restaurants, which the company says value same-day or next-day delivery, and small chain supermarkets that stock Sherwood retail packs as a ready-made shelf solution.

Provenance and sourcing

For its branded beef products, the company states that it uses only cattle from locally sourced herds in Ireland. More broadly, it describes selecting herds and farms from around the world and shipping all products from its depot in Sussex.

Delivery, collection and European expansion

Orders are dispatched in insulated boxes, with next-day delivery stated as standard from £8.95. Click & collect is offered the same day at the Crawley depot. The site lists Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands among the European markets it serves.

Sherwood Foods reports work with new stockists in Holland and the Caribbean and plans to expand its local delivery service in Holland, Belgium and western Germany for restaurants and private competition barbecue teams. It also notes that online deliveries into Europe are intended to resume and grow once paperwork issues between the UK and the EU are resolved.

Company structure and locations

The main office is in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, while products ship from a depot in Sussex. The company also operates a click & collect point at its Crawley depot.