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"Being on the A38 makes a real difference for us. Pallets leave Burton and hit the A50 for the M1 in no time, and our chilled stock is handled properly. It's the obvious spot for a drinks business."
FBA prep, buffer storage and FBM despatch for sellers across Burton upon Trent and Staffordshire — reached directly from A38, with Amazon’s Midlands fulfilment centres a short run away.
WSUK preps, stores and ships Amazon stock for Burton upon Trent sellers. Prep from £0.75 per unit, bundling from £0.45, pallets to Amazon inbound spec from £12.50, FBM picks from £1.00, and buffer stock held outside FBA with no capacity limits. A38, A50 and A511 on the doorstep and the DIRFT core 50 minutes away. We also cover Lichfield and Tamworth.
Amazon rejects and surcharges what does not arrive to spec. We prep to that spec, then move the stock — or ship the order ourselves.
Containers and supplier deliveries received, counted and checked against your purchase order, then prepped to Amazon’s requirements before a single carton moves.
Shipment plans built around your carton weights and case quantities, pallets wrapped and labelled to Amazon’s inbound standard, then delivered into the receiving centre.
Not everything belongs in FBA. We pick and pack your merchant-fulfilled and Seller Fulfilled Prime orders same day, and rescue what Amazon sends back.
Two clear tiers, the same as every WSUK service. Short-term rate card for monthly rolling accounts — pay per unit prepped, no commitment. Long-term contract rates drop as prep volumes tier up.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Receive, inspect, FNSKU label and scan each unit.
Pick, pack and same-day despatch on your own Prime SLAs.
Pallet supplied, built, wrapped and labelled for Amazon inbound.
Indicative ranges based on standard requirements. Bespoke / hazardous / temperature-controlled goods are quoted separately. Get an exact quote for your volumes →
Burton upon Trent earns its living on the A38, the fast dual carriageway that shadows the old Roman route north to Derby and south to the M42. From the DE13 and DE14 districts a lorry can reach the A50 in minutes, and from there the M1 near Derby or the M6 towards Stoke open up in either direction. That twin-motorway reach, roughly fifty minutes down to the DIRFT core at Rugby, is why so many national brands keep a Staffordshire foothold here rather than deeper in the congested West Midlands box.
The town's industrial character was poured, quite literally, from its breweries. Molson Coors and Marston's still dominate the skyline, and around them Centrum 100 and the Wellington Road Industrial Estate host the food, drink and FMCG operators who need chilled, ambient and bonded space close to the bottling lines. Branston, just off the A5121, adds further distribution acreage. The result is a local economy fluent in high-volume, palletised movement - the sort of throughput logistics providers understand instinctively.
Geographically Burton is the northern shoulder of the Golden Triangle rather than its centre, and that has advantages. Lichfield and Fradley Park lie a short run south on the A38; Tamworth, Cannock and Derby all sit within half an hour. For businesses splitting volume between the Midlands motorway network and the East Midlands via the A50, Burton is a natural staging point - close enough to the triangle to feed it, far enough north to serve Stoke, Derby and Nottingham without doubling back.
For Amazon sellers, that geography is the whole argument. Stock landing in Burton upon Trent can be prepped to Amazon’s inbound standard — FNSKU labels, polybags, box content declarations — and then trunked into the Midlands fulfilment centres on a short, cheap run rather than a cross-country one. WSUK holds the bulk at £4.50 per pallet per week and feeds FBA from it weekly, so capacity limits stop dictating what you buy.
A38, A50 and A511.
~50 min from the DIRFT / Rugby Golden-Triangle core.
Brewing, food and drink, fmcg and logistics.
Operating from the Golden Triangle on A38, A50 and A511 — around 50 minutes from the DIRFT core, and within easy reach of Lichfield, Tamworth and Derby.
From first contact to live operation, our typical onboarding takes less than a week.
Volumes, SKUs, peak season, integrations. One 10-minute call is enough.
Transparent line-item pricing on a single page — no hidden fees, no jargon.
Walk the floor with our ops team. Bring your operations lead, not just procurement.
Stock in, scanning live, integrations active. Daily standups for the first two weeks.
Local answers for Burton upon Trent, plus the questions every amazon fulfilment client asks.
Burton sits at the northern edge, around fifty minutes from the DIRFT and Rugby core. The A38 links to the A50, which in turn feeds the M1 near Derby and the M6, so despite the distance the trunk-road access keeps drive-times to the triangle predictable.
Centrum 100 off the A38 is the flagship, alongside the Wellington Road Industrial Estate and the Branston area. These estates grew up around the town's brewing and FMCG base, so they're geared to high-volume palletised storage with good HGV access.
Very much so. As Britain's brewing capital, home to Molson Coors and Marston's, Burton has a dense cluster of food, drink and FMCG operators. The local supply chain is built around ambient, chilled and bonded stock, so specialist storage and handling are readily available.
The A38 runs directly through the DE13/DE14 area, connecting south to the M42 and north to Derby. The A50 gives a fast east-west run to the M1 and M6, and the A511 links across to Swadlincote and the East Midlands.
Lichfield, Tamworth and Cannock are all within roughly half an hour via the A38, and Derby is a short A50/A5121 hop. That puts most of south Staffordshire, south Derbyshire and the top of the West Midlands comfortably inside a same-day radius.
Yes. Pallets are built and wrapped to Amazon’s inbound standard at our Golden Triangle warehouse and delivered into the UK receiving sites, with the Midlands centres around Rugeley, Coventry, Daventry and Rugby all a short run away — which keeps inbound freight off your margin.
That is the usual arrangement. Bulk sits with us from £4.50 per pallet per week with no capacity limit, and we build a replenishment shipment weekly from your sell-through, so FBA only ever holds what is actually moving.
From £0.75 per unit to receive, inspect, FNSKU label and scan, with polybagging and bundling from £0.45 and pallets from £12.50. FBM picks start at £1.00 plus £0.35 order processing. Every line is quoted before you commit.
Yes — picked, packed and despatched the same working day against a 4pm cut-off, from the same stock that feeds your FBA shipments. No second warehouse, no split inventory.
Typically 7–10 working days from brief to first prepped shipment, and faster when your stock is already in the UK. No setup fee, no minimum commitment, cancel any month.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| FNSKU, polybag & box-content prep in-house | Yes | Rarely |
| Buffer stock at £4.50/pallet/week | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum | Yes | Rarely |
| Removal orders inspected and re-prepped | Yes | Rarely |
| FBA and FBM from one stock pool | Yes | Rarely |
We provide Amazon FBA prep and fulfilment across Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire and the wider Golden Triangle — Lichfield, Tamworth and Derby and beyond. Explore nearby service areas.
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