Retail Shopping direct from East London Distributors
Pssssst! Do you have a love of fine things and for finding all those special little items that are so difficult to find in mainstream Supermarkets? If your answer is a resounding YES, it is time to consider shopping directly from some of the Distributors right here in East London.
Catering heavily (but not exclusively) for the hospitality industry, local East London distributors shop for unique or bulk products all over South Africa and bring these hard to find items to East London where they supply the local businesses from their warehouses based right here in the city.
What many people don’t know however is that almost all of these distributors have retail outlets attached to their warehouses that sell their full range of products direct to the public. Often found in industrial areas, these are not businesses the general public will know by name, but speak to anyone in the business and hospitality industry and they will all know who we are talking about.
So what can you buy? So glad you asked. Many lovely things. Here is a list of 4 Distributors in East London who are open to the public.
PFD Professional FoodService Distrubutors
PFD is situated in Chamberlain Road in Berea and is a honey hole when it comes to wonderful little goodies. Catering for the Guesthouse Industry, you can purchase anything from crisp white bed linen and wonderfully soft hotel blankets to fluffy white bath towels and a wide range of guest amenities … yes … all those little soaps and creams that hotels give away free to guests.
If you want to deck out your spare room so that it looks like a hotel room, PFD is the perfect place to purchase not only the linen and towels, but also butlers trays, luggage racks, mini-kettles, white towelling bathrobes as well as disposable white slippers (like the ones you get at upmarket SPA’s).
But that is not all! What is the hotel room experience without the little sachets of tea, coffee, sugar and those delicious little individually covered rusks and biscuits? Blow your guests away! PFD will help you make your home as beautiful and welcoming as a guesthouse.
Looking for a reasonably priced gift? Why not make-up a ‘pamper hamper’ by selecting a white towel and pairing it with some very reasonably priced soaps or creams from their wide arrangements of guest amenities. With little individual creams starting from around R4.00, there is something for every price point.
Click here to visit the PFD website to view their wide range of products.
Burbridge Foods
If you are on a diet, give this one a very wide berth. Burbridge Foods sinfully imports the most delicious delicacies from all over South Africa and distributes them from their warehouse situated in the SBDC.
Catering predominately to restaurants, hotels and guesthouses, Burbridge Foods also has a retail shop inside their warehouse where the general public can come to purchase some of the most delicious and decadent, yummy goodies available in East London.
Offering a wide range of frozen goods including vegetables, seafood, pork and poultry, Burbridge Foods also offers a delicious array of unique speciality meat products such as schwartwurst, springbok carpaccio, chorizio, pancetta, coppa and whole quails, to name but a few.
Their mediterranean foods are a delight and here you can shop to your hearts content for delicious mediterranean food accompaniements such as 5 olives mix, basil pesto, green jalapenos’, humus and peppadews. You will never find a mediterranean dish without 2 very important items, bread and cheese. Select one of their many artisan breads and add the perfect topping … cheese! Spoil yourself and grab a selection of grand padano, goats milk cheese, provolone or parmi reggiano – just some of the many delicious cheeses available.
And what is a meal without dessert? Incomplete – that’s what! Well never fear, at Burbridge Foods you can buy the most stunning individual ice-cream cakes that will be the talk of your dinner party.
Click here to visit the Burbridge website to view their wide list of products.
Lifestyle Concepts
After visiting Burbridge Foods you may need to get some help shifting those unnecessary pounds gained while hosting all those wonderful dinner parties. Lifestyle Concepts is owned by Lynn Brady who is a distributor of a number of unique products. She also has a retail outlet on Gonubie Main Road.
Barons Banting
Barons Banting distributes banting pre-mixes to select supermarkets and outlets in the East London area. As a successful banter herself, Lynn also gives advice to those wishing to make the lifestyle change.
Lynn’s Wardrobe
Taking over the very popular ‘Styled by Lucy’ brand in East London, Lynn has rebranded and is offering a hand picked selection of clothing for the discerning buyer from her retail store in Gonubie.
Derma-Puur
As an extremely satisfied customer herself, Lynn is a distributor of the Derma-Puur beauty products, a South African developed and manufactured skin product containing Anthocyanidin, a molecule structure that is small enough to penetrate the cellular walls of the skin and repair the damaged skin cells from within.
3D Fiber Lashes
Give yourself the lashes you have always wanted. Apply your quick and easy, no smudges, waterproof 3D eye lashes – you won’t believe your eyes.
Click here to visit the Lifestyle Concepts Website to learn more about these fantastic products.
Kemko Agencies
If you are frustrated with paying huge amounts of money to keep your home or work environment clean, you definitely need to visit Kemko Agencies, situated in their warehouse on Bowls Road in Arcadia.
Kemko Agencies supplies bulk cleaning products to the business and industry sector. No matter what your cleaning requirements are, Kemko has a range of products to meet your requirements and can also tailer make something specifically to meet your individual needs.
Their range of products include household products such as toilet bowl cleaners, germ busta’s, restroom cleaners and floor polish to personal care products such as liquid hand soap, anti-bacteria soap, hair & body shampoo and bubble bath.
Their laundry products include a range of washing powder (liquid & powder), fabric softener and bleach while their food & beverage products include dish washing liquids, dishwasher powders, grill cleaners and general purpose cleaning gel for floors.
They also offer a range of industrial cleaning products that help clean up grease and grime as well as a range of car cleaning products such as car shampoo, tyre and dash shine, prep wash and air freshener.
Click here to visit the Kemko Agencies website to learn more about their range of cleaning products.
Shop clever! Start visiting some of our local distributors and you will find a treasure of goodies not easily available in the retail market.
