28th - 30th September 2025  |  NEC, Birmingham
29 Jul 2024

Portable Cold Stores project for Cotswold Raw

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Portable Cold Stores project for Cotswold Raw

Raw pet food specialist, Cotswold RAW, has recently expanded its business again and have invested heavily in multiple temperature-controlled rooms. The new bespoke built Production facility offering a large purpose-built main freezer, blast freezer chamber and main holding chiller. Combined with external freezers and an increase in its picking freezer operation it’s a sizable expansion program.

PCS have supplied over many years all of Cotswold Raws Rooms and refrigeration to the high-end RAW Pet food supplier on a purchase and lease basis contract with back up service and maintenance plan.

Steve Prior, General Manager, explains: “We are very happy to have the support from our valued old and new customers’ businesses as they grow and continue to expand in the RAW Pet food market sector. We were delighted to be invited in by Cotswold RAW and have provided a tailored bespoke multi temperature facility built to their exacting standards” We have also supplied a number of Cotswold RAW end user customers in this continuously growing RAW pet food market sector.

Mark Lewis Managing Director of Cotswold Raw, and Chris Brierley, Director of Cotswold RAW comments:

“We are very impressed with how Portable Cold Stores have understood our overall vision and brief and were able to offer complete design and bespoke solutions for our project. It was extremely important to us at Cotswold RAW not only to provide refrigeration solutions for our existing production throughput but to also future proof our business providing the extra capacity to support our future business expansion.

“The rooms allow us to buy fresh ingredients efficiently, and we are able to fit in pallets and manoeuvre trolleys to make our lives a lot easier. Portable Cold Stores 45 years combined knowledge were able to advise the structural systems and tailored bespoke equipment, and we’re grateful that they have been flexible to enable our expansion program – which has been designed, supplied and installed to program schedule.”

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We are thrilled with the incredible response from our very first exhibition at PATS! The three days were absolutely brilliant, giving us the opportunity to connect with many new and existing customers. PATS proved to be the perfect platform for launching our new catalogue and introducing over 350 brand-new SKUs. We can't wait to be a part of next year's event at the NEC!

Tom Gwilliam
Sales & Marketing Director |  HugglePets

I think it’s a great idea to add a third day to PATS. We’re here for all three days, giving us enough time to meet everyone and make informed decisions about stocking new products. We also like PATS because of all the networking opportunities.

Tina Quest
Redpaw Pet Supplies, Devon

At PATS 2024 it was lovely to reconnect with our existing customers while also having the opportunity to meet potential new ones. We were thrilled to launch three new ranges during the show, Canagan Petite, Canagan Raw (Freeze Dried Treats and Toppers) and Symply Little, all of which have sold amazingly well, further highlighting the value of this event for showcasing our innovations. Looking ahead, we believe that the Birmingham NEC could offer significant advantages, including improved transport links and a larger venue to accommodate a growing number of exhibitors and visitors, both will enhance the overall experience.

Charlie Williams
Joint Managing Director |  Canagan Group

We’ve been rushed off our feet on all three days. It has been an excellent show and I love the fact you can spend more time with visitors. I will definitely need a larger stand in 2025

Cyril Geoffray
UK & Ireland national Sales Manager |  Zoo Med
We’ve missed going to Aqua so we’re really happy to be visiting the Aquatics Zone at PATS. We’ve come to see the new products, find out about deals on offer and meet people face to face. It’s also a great opportunity for networking with other shops and companies and building new relationships – something we have missed out on during the Covid years
Mark Warren
Partner |  West Dorset Aquatics
We’ve come to PATS for the whole three days because you just can’t do it justice in only two. For us, as we deal with the whole spectrum of the pet industry, we spend day one wandering through the halls to see what catches our eye and day two doing our buying – but we’ve found that by the end of the second day we haven’t always got round to everyone. So the third day is a real bonus. There is less of a rush to get it all done and we can spend more time building relationships and ensuring we’ve caught all the deals and found all the new products we might want to stock. PATS is an important highlight of the year and we wouldn’t want to miss any of it!
Toni Thornton
Managing Director |  Four Oaks Pet Supplies, Scarborough

It was great to see the Aquatics Zone sold out and full of exhibitors. For us at J&K it was a pleasure, as always, to catch up with a good number of our longstanding customers as well as meet with and introduce our brands and product ranges to potential new ones. Hopefully the new format for 2025, moving into a larger venue, capable of accommodating even more exhibitors, and with better air, road and rail access, will encourage even more visitors, allowing the show to grow in the years to come.

Ben Windeatt
Sales & Marketing |  J&K Aquatics
I’m a big advocate of having three show days because it gives you more time to spend with clients. PATS keeps growing in a good way because it gives more companies – big and small, old and new – the platform to make their mark. I had a look at the New Starter Zone and loved the buzz that these new companies were creating. PATS is great for the UK pet industry
Greg Van Praagh
Head of UK |  RPFC Group

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