WHO WE ARE

WORKING WITH VOW

At VOW Wholesale, we’re experts at empowering our partners. We offer a broad range of business supplies, from everyday essentials to comprehensive solutions. Our expert team provides extensive knowledge in categories such as cleaning, hygiene, catering and hospitality, ensuring you get the latest products and crucial support for this growing category. Backed by our large-scale distribution, we deliver seamlessly and efficiently across the UK. Plus, we’re deeply committed to offering sustainable products, helping you meet your environmental goals. We’re more than just a supplier; we’re your strategic partner, built on reliability, commitment, and unwavering support.

Our Infrastructure

Creating the utmost convenience and efficiency for our partners, through our unrivalled warehousing and logistical infrastructure.

Delivering across the UK and Ireland

We operate a centralised distribution network, with distribution centres around the UK and Ireland, complemented by regional cross-dock sites.

Our unrivalled logistics platform includes over 450+ wholly owned Truline delivery vehicles, efficiently delivering a vast range of products to workplaces across the nation.

OUR GOALS

Every successful business has a defining ambition, beyond making profit, which guides its development. This is expressed through a clear and purposeful vision and mission which communicates what we want to achieve and how we will do it.

At VOW, our vision and mission are based on an intention to serve our customers as best we can and to lead our industry in supply, process and innovation.

OUR VISION

To provide supply chain efficiency, product innovation and service excellence that enables UK resellers to thrive.

OUR MISSION

To be the partner of choice for UK resellers, delivering flexible, innovative and sustainable supplies and services that supports customers in achieving their goals.

OUR CSR PURPOSE

We are committed to working in a way that ensures we achieve a positive and far reaching social, economic and environmental impact, sharing our success and the inevitable challenges along the way.

Our History

We’ve been fulfilling reseller needs since 1852.

Our lineage comes from a long and successful history in the office supplies wholesaler industry. With the beneficial growth generated through acquisitions and mergers, today VOW stands as one of the largest Workplace Supplies and services partners in the UK. VOW is proud to be an evo company, benefiting from its unique powerhouse of brands, infrastructure and scale.

1852
John Heath established his stationery business delivering office products around the Birmingham area and eventually expanding to other parts of the country.
1969
Kingfield Press began
business as a wholesale
stationer in Sheffield
1999
Kingfield’s sales were
approaching £100 million
per annum with their
seven regional
warehouses. Kingfield
acquired John Heath
creating Kingfield Heath.
2001
Kingfield Heath relocated
to a new purpose-built
headquarters in Sheffield,
£20 million investment in a
new 11,000,000 cu. ft
distribution centre in
Leicestershire knows as
the Arrow Distribution
Centre, or ADC the most
technologically advanced
centre in the industry.
2007
Electra Partners
completed the acquisition
of Kingfield Heath and ISA
to form the UK & Irelands
largest first super
wholesaler of business
supplies under the name
Vasanta Group.
2008
The organisation split into
two companies with the
larger of the two becoming
the wholesale business
later renamed VOW
combining the massive
expertise and product
ranges of both Kingfield
Heath and ISA Wholesale.
2014
Vasanta Group and
office2office came
together to form a new
£600m Group which will
be one of the largest multichannel
distributors of
business supplies in the
industry with an
unparalleled reach and
experience; EVO Business
Supplies Ltd, otherwise
known as evo Group
2019
VOW is rebranded to
VOW Wholesale and
further enhances its
position as a market
leader within the business
supplies industry.