Woods Foodservice Ltd
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, United Kingdom
December 2025
Food products
Wholesale/Retail
China,
France,
Germany,
Iceland,
Italy,
Japan,
Netherlands The,
Qatar,
Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Saudi Arabia,
Sierra Leone,
Singapore,
Spain,
United Arab Emirates,
United Kingdom,
United States
Woods Foodservice is a UK-based, family-owned wholesaler serving the high-end hospitality sector. Operating as a comprehensive supply partner, Woods offers a broad range of products including ambient goods, fresh produce, dairy and chilled items, frozen items, a bespoke tableware collection, and a premium meat partnership with HG Walter. The business supplies over 1,200 clients across London, Brighton, the Southwest, Manchester, and Birmingham, including more than 50 Michelin-starred restaurants, alongside hotels, private members’ clubs, gastropubs, bars, and premium cafés.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 11.9
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 23.2
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 18.4
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 31.9
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 5.0
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.