Business of the Year, Team of the Year and Business in the Community entrant – Simarco International

Business of the Year, Team of the Year and Business in the Community entrant – Simarco International
Posted on 06.06.25
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Business of the Year, Team of the Year and Business in the Community entrant – Simarco International

Simarco International is one of the UK’s leading independent logistics and freight operators, with more than 25 years of experience in the industry.

Stoke-on-Trent is Simarco`s newest, flagship site, at Radial Park, Sideway. At 108,000 sqft it operates cross dock services throughout Europe including import and export, ocean exports, air export and imports, courier, customs clearance, third-party logistics and domestic transport.

The site operates 24 hours per day, every day of the week. The site is an external temporary storage facility and customs bonded facility, allowing export and imports customs clearance to take place in Stoke-on-Trent, negating bottlenecks in UK ports and airports.

Whilst Simarco International is a nationwide business offering full international services, besides Stoke-on-Trent being Simarco`s flagship location, more than 17% of its worldwide workforce is based in North Staffordshire.

The Stoke facility is increasing its market share of Simarco’s total European business, which currently sees more than 525,000 pallets of groupage shipments, 16,000 full load European shipments and 100,000 UK pallets annually. The Stoke warehouse is ideally placed to service international movements across the whole of the Midlands and North of England.

Over the course of Simarco’s history it has grown exponentially, not only through sales, employee numbers, facilities and locations, but also in its commitment to the environment and our local community.

Causes and people the company supports within North Staffordshire include The Peter Pan Centre, Project Indi, Newcastle Wanderers Youth Squad, Circus Star – The Circus with a purpose, The Macari Centre, the BMX champion Ruby Moores and The Salvation Army.

Simarco has entered the Business of the Year, Team of the Year and Business in the Community categories of University of Staffordshire Business Awards.

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