Specialist UK importer of fresh exotic and ethnic produce. Mangoes, papaya, okra, karela, fresh chillies, yams, plantain and more — air-freighted into Heathrow seven days a week, graded at our Southall pack-house, dispatched same-day to wholesalers, caterers, retailers and foodservice across the UK.
With produce landing into Heathrow seven days a week, our stock turns continuously. You receive boxes that are days from harvest — not weeks — keeping waste and mark-downs to a minimum.
The hidden margin that disappears with longer supply chains and smaller players stays where it belongs: in your business.
We maintain multiple grower partnerships across multiple countries for every core product line. When one origin moves out of season, another moves in — so the SKUs your customers expect are on your bay every week of the year.
The same quality. The same specification. The same call-back. Day in, day out.
We work in partnership with growers in their fields, not through layers of consolidators and re-sellers. That means a shorter chain, a fresher product, fewer hand-offs, and a price that reflects one margin — not four.
When you buy from Paul's, you're buying as close to the source as the UK supply chain allows.
We source direct from named growers across Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the UK. We charter cargo space on commercial flights into Heathrow seven days a week, every week of the year.
Our pack-house sits in Southall — one minute from our customers at Western International Market. Your order is dispatched the same day it clears customs from our facility.
No consolidators. No anonymous warehouses. A shorter chain on perishable lines, with sea freight reserved only for robust products where quality on arrival is unaffected. One margin, not four — backed by BRCGS Food Safety certification on every box.
Three decades of relationships with named partner farms across 14 origin countries. A-grade harvest reserved for us.
Field-cooled within hours of harvest. Loaded into temperature-controlled containers. Driven to the origin airport overnight.
Daily cargo flights into Heathrow. Fresh arrivals every day of the week — your range doesn't wait on someone else's volume.
Every box graded at our Southall pack-house under BRCGS Food Safety protocols. Dispatched the same day it clears customs — one minute from Western International.
A selection of our regular sourcing origins — air-freighted for the highest-quality lines, sea-freighted only where robust products allow it, and UK-grown when local makes sense. Our full range is broader; talk to us about anything you're looking for.
BRCGS (formerly BRC Global Standards) is the food-safety certification the UK's major retailers, foodservice groups and contract caterers list as a baseline supplier requirement. We are independently audited every year, end-to-end across sourcing, storage, grading, packing and dispatch.
When you buy through Paul's, your downstream customers' due-diligence file is half-filled before the first invoice is raised.
Buying from Paul's isn't a login and a PDF. It's a named buyer on our sales desk, a forward order book, and a guaranteed slot on every flight your range depends on.
One supplier, multiple categories, pickup-the-phone reliability.
Order by the box (typically 4–10kg depending on line), by the pallet, or build a part-load mixing multiple SKUs. The flexibility a 33-year-old business can offer that a startup can't.
Wholesalers across UK markets, independent retailers, restaurant groups, contract and wedding caterers, dark kitchens, meal-kit brands, and foodservice distributors.
Most buyers consolidate their Indian, African, Caribbean, Latin American, Mediterranean and British produce purchasing with us. One invoice. One delivery. One phone number.
Straight answers to the four most common queries from new trade buyers. If yours isn't here, the sales desk will give it to you on the phone in under a minute.
One box for collection from our Southall pack-house. No artificial minimums, no "trade pack" gatekeeping — order what your kitchen, shop or run actually needs.
For delivered orders, minimums are agreed by account during the first conversation and depend on your location and frequency. Ask the desk for a delivered price on your usual lines.
Nationwide. We run our own fleet for regular runs and work with trusted haulier partners who specialise in fresh fruit and veg — the kind that understand cold-chain, time-of-day windows, and what "first drop, 4am" actually means.
From the Highlands to Cornwall, we'll find a route that lands your order in spec.
Terms vary by account type. Credit terms for established trade accounts, cash on delivery for new accounts and ad-hoc collection, and pro-forma where appropriate.
We'll talk through what's right for you when we open the account — the goal is to match your cashflow rhythm, not impose ours.
We divert. Our grower-direct routes can land freight at Gatwick, Birmingham or Manchester when Heathrow is disrupted — strike, weather, security event, anything.
And because we import seven days a week, a one-day event at any single airport rarely puts a dent in availability. Your range keeps moving.
Our sales desk in Southall is open seven days a week. Tell us what you're buying, what you're paying, and what's not working — we'll tell you straight whether we can do better.
Supplying the UK trade has taught us one thing: reliability is the contract. Pick up the phone — we'll prove it.