Olympic Foods

What Olympic Foods does

Olympic Foods is a privately held UK food manufacturer and distributor, legally registered as Olympic Oils Ltd and headquartered in Whiston, Merseyside, founded in 1990. The company describes itself as one of the UK's largest packers and distributors of edible oils and fats and a major producer of mayonnaise and sauces, serving primarily catering and foodservice customers (quick service restaurants, caterers, and food service operators) across the UK with export distribution into Europe, the UAE, and China. It operates a workforce of approximately 98 employees and is led by Managing Director Tariq Ghani.

The product portfolio spans liquid oils (vegetable, rapeseed, sunflower, olive, corn, and specialty oils), hard oils (bakery fats, long-life frying blends, and vegetable ghee), an extensive cold-process sauce range (multiple mayonnaise variants, salad cream, prawn cocktail, tartare, horseradish, burger sauce, raita, and garlic and herb), cooked sauces (ketchup tiers under Olympic, Clyde, Crest, and Troy; chilli, BBQ, brown, mint, tamarind, and a full suite of South Asian curry pastes), and sundries (vinegar, mustard, salt, lemon dressing, gravy browning). Manufacturing uses steam-jacketed pans for cooked sauces and state-of-the-art batch processing equipment for cold-process products. An in-house packaging plant produces PET bottles (500ml-10L), HDPE bottles (4L), and tin plate drums (15-20L), and the company operates its own delivery fleet for end-to-end supply chain control. The company holds BRC Grade AA, Kosher (Manchester Beth Din), and RSPO sustainable palm oil certifications, and operates a wholly-owned subsidiary, ODC Packaging Limited, which sells empty packaging to third parties.

The business model is B2B direct sales to catering and foodservice buyers on a quote-based pricing structure (prices are not publicly listed), with additional revenue from empty-packaging sales through ODC Packaging Limited. Distribution is direct via the company's own fleet across the UK and via export channels to Europe, the UAE, and China. Revenue is not publicly disclosed.

Name

Olympic Foods

Legal name

Olympic Oils Ltd

Website

https://olympicfoods.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Olympic Foods (Olympic Oils Ltd) is a UK-based B2B food manufacturer and distributor of edible oils, sauces, mayonnaise, and condiments serving catering and foodservice customers in the UK with exports to Europe, the UAE, and China.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Prescot

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Edible Oils and Fats Distribution: Distribution of edible vegetable oils and fats including liquid oils (vegetable, rapeseed, sunflower, olive, corn) and hard oils (bakery fats, vegetable ghee, long life oil blends) to foodservice and catering businesses
2. Sauces and Mayonnaise Production: Production and sale of cold process sauces (mayonnaise, flavoured mayonnaise, salad cream, prawn cocktail) and cooked sauces (ketchup, chilli sauce, BBQ sauce, brown sauce, curry pastes, mustard, mint sauce, burger relish)
3. Empty Packaging Sales: Sale of empty packaging through sister company ODC Packaging Limited, including PET bottles (500ml-10 litre), HDPE bottles (4 litre) and tin plate drums (15-20 litre)

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Olympic Foods manufactures, packs, and distributes edible vegetable oils and fats (liquid and hard oils including bakery fats and vegetable ghee) along with a broad range of cold process sauces (mayonnaise, salad cream, prawn cocktail) and cooked sauces (ketchup, chilli, BBQ, brown, mint, curry pastes). The company operates an in-house packaging plant producing PET bottles, HDPE bottles, and tin plate drums, and runs its own delivery fleet providing nationwide UK distribution plus exports to Europe, UAE, and China.

Product overview

Olympic Foods is one of the UK's largest packers and distributors of edible oils and fats, and a major producer of sauces and mayonnaise. The company operates a diversified product portfolio organized into several core categories: Liquid Oils (Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil, Olive Oils, Corn Oil, Specialty Oils), Hard Oils (Bakery Fats, Vegetable Ghee, Long Life Oil Blends), Cold Process Sauces (Mayonnaise variants including Real Mayo, Light Mayo, Thick & Creamy Mayo, Chefs Mayo, Essential Mayo, Magic Whip, Coleslaw Mayo; Flavoured Mayonnaise including Garlic, Tikka, Coronation; Salad Cream, Prawn Cocktail Sauce, and Speciality Sauces including Tartare, Horseradish, Burger Sauce, Raita, Garlic and Herb), Cooked Sauces (Ketchup, Chilli Sauce, BBQ Sauce, Brown Sauce, Mint Sauce, Tamarind Sauce, Cooking Pastes including Tandoori, Tikka, Kashmiri, Balti, Curry, Kebab, Rogan Josh, Madras, Korma), and Sundries (Vinegar, Gravy Browning, Lemon Dressing, Salt, Mustard, Burger Relish). The company also produces its own packaging through an in-house plant (PET bottles, HDPE bottles, and tin plate drums) and operates its own distribution fleet. Olympic Foods serves the UK market and exports to Europe, UAE and China.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Clyde Tomato Ketchup: Premium tomato ketchup brand sold under the Olympic Foods product range
• Crest Tomato Ketchup
• Troy Tomato Ketchup
• Caterfry
• Eco-Fry
• Eco-Bake
• Superfry
• Olympic Gold

Products and services

• Liquid Oils Edible liquid oils for catering and foodservice including Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Olive Pomace Oil, Blended Olive Pomace Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil, Vegetable Oil, and Corn Oil, offered in sizes from bottles up to 1000-litre IBCs for marinades, dressings, baking, and frying.
• Hard Oils and Long Life Frying Oils Hard oils and bakery fats including Caterfry, Eco-Fry ZT, and Olympic Gold extended life frying oils (20-litre, 15-litre, and 10-litre buckets), Eco-Fry and Caterfry RSPO palm oil, Eco-Bake bakery fats, and Olympic Vegetable Ghee and Eco-Ghee RSPO for South Asian cooking and confectionery.
• Mayonnaise Range of mayonnaise products including Real Mayo, Light Mayo, Thick & Creamy Mayo, Chefs Mayo, Essential Mayo, Magic Whip heat-stable mayo, Coleslaw Mayo, plus flavoured variants (Garlic, Tikka, Coronation), supplied in 2.5-litre to 18kg buckets for catering and foodservice.
• Salad Cream and Speciality Cold Sauces Salad Cream, Prawn Cocktail Sauce, Tartare Sauce, Horseradish Sauce, Burger Sauce, Raita (Yoghurt & Mint), and Garlic and Herb Sauce, supplied in jar and bucket formats for catering applications.
• Tomato Ketchup Range Tomato ketchup products including Olympic Tomato Ketchup, Clyde Tomato Ketchup (premium), Crest Tomato Ketchup (foodservice), and Troy Tomato Ketchup (economy), in 4-litre jugs and 20kg buckets.
• Chilli and Peri Peri Sauces Sweet Chilli, Hot Peri Peri, Hot Chilli, Extra Hot (Seeded) Chilli, and Chilli Garlic Sauce, supplied in 1-litre bottles, 2.27-litre jars, and 10kg buckets.
• BBQ Sauces BBQ Sauce, Sticky BBQ Sauce, and Extra Thick BBQ Sauce, supplied in 2.27-litre jars and 10kg buckets for catering use.
• Cooking Pastes South Asian cooking pastes including Tandoori, Tikka, Kashmiri, Balti, Curry (Medium), Kebab, Rogan Josh, Madras, and Korma, supplied in 2.38kg jars.
• Other Cooked Sauces Brown Sauce, Mint Sauce, Tamarind Sauce, and Burger Relish supplied in PET bottles, 2.27-litre jars, and other catering pack sizes.
• Mustards, Vinegars, and Sundries English, French, Dijon, and Coarse Grain Mustards, White and Malt Vinegar, Non-Brewed White Condiment, Gravy Browning, and Lemon Dressing supplied in jerry cans, jugs, and jars for foodservice.
• Cooking Salt Cooking Salt supplied in 12.5kg and 25kg bags for food service and catering use.
• Empty Packaging Products (via ODC Packaging Limited) In-house manufactured empty packaging including PET bottles (500ml to 10 litre), HDPE bottles (4 litre), and tin plate drums (15L, 18L, 20L), sold to other manufacturers through sister company ODC Packaging Limited.

Quantifiable outcome

• BRC Grade AA certification achieved - one of few companies in industry to attain this standard
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ODC Packaging LimitedcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerSister company through which Olympic Foods sells empty packaging to other manufacturers. Range includes PET bottles (500ml-10 litre), HDPE bottles (4 litre) and tin plate drums (15-20 litre)
• NEODAminorOthersKey NEODA member - National Edible Oil Distributors Association

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Cargill: Global agricultural commodities giant with major vegetable oils, fats and food-ingredients operations. Competes with Olympic Foods in packaged and bulk edible oils for foodservice and industrial buyers, but at much greater scale and vertically integrated upstream.
• Bunge: Global agribusiness and oilseed processor with major presence in vegetable oils and bakery fats. Direct supply-chain adjacency to Olympic Foods' hard oils and bakery fat lines, but at commodity-industrial scale rather than B2B foodservice branded.
• ADM: Global agribusiness with significant edible-oils processing, specialty food ingredients and flavours businesses. Overlaps with Olympic Foods' oils/fats and sauce-ingredient value chain, particularly for foodservice and industrial customers.
• Associated British Foods: UK-listed conglomerate (ABF) with food brands including Kingsmill, Twinings and Patak's. Operates in adjacent UK packaged-foods and ethnic-sauce categories and shares UK foodservice retail channels.
• Unilever: Global CPG giant owning Hellmann's mayonnaise, Knorr sauces and a broad condiments portfolio. Direct overlap with Olympic Foods' mayonnaise and sauce business, but operates at vastly greater scale and with global brand power.
• Kraft Heinz: Global condiments leader (Heinz ketchup, BBQ sauces, mustards). Direct overlap in cooked-sauce categories Olympic Foods serves, but with global brand equity, deeper R&D and multinational distribution Olympic Foods lacks.

Direct peers

• Premier Foods: UK-listed packaged food manufacturer (HP Sauce, Sharwood's, Ambrosia, Batchelors). Most direct UK analogue operating in sauces, condiments and packaged foods for retail and foodservice, though at substantially larger scale than Olympic Foods.
• Princes Group: UK-headquartered food and drink group producing edible oils, canned foods, juices and condiments for retail and foodservice. Closely overlaps Olympic Foods' core oils-and-sauces portfolio and UK foodservice customer base.
• Bakkavor: UK-listed fresh prepared-food manufacturer supplying major retailers and foodservice operators with sauces, dressings and meal components. Comparable in customer type (UK foodservice/retail) and in-house manufacturing plus distribution model.

Emerging players

• Mizkan: Japan-headquartered vinegar, sauces and condiments group expanding in the UK and Europe (including via the Branston brand). Overlaps with Olympic Foods' vinegar, sauces and condiments portfolio and competes for similar foodservice/retail customers in selected categories.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/olympicfoods
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/olympic-oils-limited

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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