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Freshways

Freshways: £2.4m cost avoidance by buying multiple dairy brands as one

£2.4m
cost avoidance · full procurement + carbon compliance
Sector
Dairy · food processing
Headline result
£2.4m cost avoidance
Approach
Grouped multi-brand buying framework
Scope
Procurement + carbon compliance

The challenge

Freshways operates across multiple brands, each buying energy on its own terms. Fragmented purchasing across a group is a quiet but persistent tax: separate contracts mean separate margins, weaker aggregate buying power, and no single view of the group’s exposure to a volatile market. For an energy-intensive food processor, that fragmentation was money left on the table year after year.

The group also wanted its energy strategy and its carbon compliance handled coherently, rather than as two disconnected workstreams.

Our approach

We brought the group’s brands together into one buying framework, so the combined volume was purchased as a single book. Consolidating the purchasing reduced the supplier margin applied across the group and gave Freshways one coherent strategy in place of several competing ones. We then folded carbon compliance into the same engagement, so procurement and reporting pulled in the same direction.

The result

The consolidated strategy delivered £2.4m in cost avoidance against the group’s previous purchasing approach — and enough confidence in the outcome that Freshways handed us the full procurement process end to end.

“After seeing the huge impact on our business, we fully trust ENERGYbubble to manage our full energy procurement process, including carbon compliance and purchasing strategy.”

— Chief Operating Officer, Freshways
A note on BICS

Dairy processing isn’t on the BICS eligible-sector list, so these savings came from procurement, not BICS. If part of your group makes oils, fats, starch or sugar, that activity may qualify — check the eligible-sector list →

Buying across multiple brands or sites?

We consolidate the book, cut the margin, and align procurement with compliance.