★★★★★
"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."
Pick and pack for Burton upon Trent businesses — batch, wave or zone picking matched to your order profile, every pick barcode-verified, same-day despatch via A38.
Pick and pack for Burton upon Trent from WSUK: batch, wave or zone picking chosen against your order profile, location and SKU scanned on every pick, and packing to a written spec. Picks from £1.00 (under 3kg), £1.50 (3–19.99kg), £3.95 (20kg+), plus £0.35 order processing. Same-day despatch on a 4pm cut-off via A38, A50 and A511, 50 minutes from the DIRFT core.
A wrong item shipped costs the pick, the outbound carriage, the return carriage, the re-pick and usually the customer. Accuracy is not a nice-to-have.
Single-line orders, multi-line baskets and big batch runs need different methods. We use batch, wave or zone picking depending on your actual order profile rather than one house style.
The picker scans the location and the SKU. If it does not match the order, it does not go in the box — which is how 99.5%+ accuracy is actually achieved.
Box size, void fill, fragile handling and labelling agreed with you and documented, so every parcel leaves the same way regardless of who packed it.
The same two tiers as every WSUK service. Short-term rate card for monthly rolling accounts — pay per pick, no commitment. Long-term contract rates tier down as volume becomes predictable.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Single and multi-line orders under 3kg.
The bulk of typical order volume.
Two-hand picks with extra protection.
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.
Picking accuracy is the quiet economics of fulfilment. A wrong item costs the pick, the outbound carriage, the return, the re-pick and usually the customer. For Burton upon Trent brands we scan every pick, document the packing standard and report the mis-pick rate monthly.
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 pick & pack services 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.
99.5%+ on managed accounts. The picker scans both the location and the SKU, so a mismatch stops at the shelf rather than reaching a box — and the mis-pick rate is reported to you monthly rather than asserted.
Whichever fits your order profile — batch picking where many orders share SKUs, wave picking against carrier cut-offs, zone picking where the SKU count is large. Send a month of order data and we will tell you which.
Yes — your boxes, tissue, inserts and cards held alongside the product, with plain packing for marketplace orders from the same stock and the same bench.
From £1.00 per pick under 3kg, £1.50 for 3–19.99kg, £3.95 for 20kg+, plus £0.35 order processing. Monthly rolling, no setup fee, no minimum.
4pm for same-day despatch. Late carrier collections from our Golden Triangle warehouse mean an afternoon order still leaves that afternoon.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| Location and SKU scanned on every pick | Yes | Rarely |
| Pick method matched to your order profile | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum | Yes | Rarely |
| Written packing spec per SKU group | Yes | Rarely |
| Mis-pick rate reported monthly | Yes | Rarely |
We provide pick and pack services across Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire and the wider Golden Triangle — Lichfield, Tamworth and Derby and beyond. Explore nearby service areas.
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