Onion, shallot and garlic sourcing, packing and supply for retail, wholesale and recipe box companies.
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Lean & Flexible

We are a small family business meaning we can make quick decisions and react hastily.

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Vertically Integrated

Being an onion grower, importer, packer and processor, we have transparency from seed to store.

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Allium Specialists

We only do alliums. Our bespoke facilities means we can effectively manage onion post harvest conditioning, storage, grading and packing

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Capability

Whole head and onion processing facilities with multiple routes to market for greater crop utilisation.

Moulton Bulb

We've been growing, packing and processing onions for over 40 years. We live and breathe onions, shallots and garlic and believe that to be the best, you should stick to what you know; and we certainly know our onions.

Our family values are key to our success as they really get the best out of our team. We combine those values with a can-do attitude and the foresight to look forward and address future challenges which helps us lead the market in the world of onions and garlic.

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Lean & Flexible

Small family business delivering quick decisions.

Allium Specialists

Onion and garlic business with bespoke facilities to manage post-harvest conditioning, grading, storage and packing.

Vertically Integrated

Grower, packer, processor. Transparency from seed to store.

Capability

Whole head and processing facilities with multiple routes to market.
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About us
We know our onions

Alliums are our business. Since 1979 we have been sourcing and packing the finest quality and largest range of onions, garlic and shallots available to the UK market. You won't find an extensive list of exotic vegetables here. That's because we believe that to be the best at what you do, you should stick to what you know, and we certainly know our onions.

Family values

Our family values still ring true today, and are a key part of our success. We never compromise on the quality of product or service. When an order is made, we deliver. Don't think, however, that as a family run business, we rest on our traditional heritage. Technology and forward thinking has always been at the forefront of everything we do. Many of the new developments in the market over the years have originated from Moulton. Be it the way in which onions are now dried and cured, or the ways in which you see them presented on the supermarket shelves in form fill packaging. Fresh Garlic, Shallots, Echalion Shallots, Skinned Onions and prepared red onions were all introduced to the UK supermarkets by us.

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From humble beginnings

From humble beginnings and only a few acres of land, our founder, the late Gilbert Oldershaw MBE, built up the farming business before branching out into flower bulb production. Moulton Bulb Co. Ltd was born and has developed into one of the largest onion packers in the UK today. Around 25% of the UK supermarket volume is carefully selected at our site in Moulton

Year round supply

Our own farm generally kicks the UK season off, and after that, we call on a specially selected group of British growers from the length and breadth of the country to supply over 1700 tonnes of onions each week. To compliment our British onion growers, we call upon around 40 international growers from across the globe to supplement supply when the UK crop is not available.

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Innovative thinking

Process innovation in order to improve quality or drive costs out of the business has always been high on our agenda. We have recently embarked on our biggest investment to date in the form of a state of the art, NIR cup grader which is already revolutionising the quality of our product and the service we can offer to our growers and customers.

Our Business and Brands

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