Nwf Group Plc - NWF- Profile

NWF Group plc(NWF). The Group's principal activities are warehousing and distributing grocery products, manufacturing and merchanting animal feeds, distributing fuel oils, and selling garden products. Fuels division supplies heating fuels for domestic, agricultural and industrial uses. It also distributes automotive fuels into the transport sectors. Feeds operation manufactures feeds and provides other products and services to cattle and sheep farmers throughout the livestock farming areas of Western Britain from Argyll to Cornwall. This division manufactures 400,000 tonnes per annum of compound animal feeds at Wardle and Devon. Distribution operates a fleet of vehicles and trailers based at a 30 acre site in Cheshire which can store around 45,000 pallets in ambient warehousing, primarily used for the storage of goods prior to daily order-picking for delivery. Garden Centres operates five centres in Rivendell, Woodford Park, Wheatcroft, Dukeries and Victoria. Fuels accounted for 61% of fiscal 2006 revenues; Feeds, 25%; Distribution, 9% and Garden Centres, 5%