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Top 25 Collective purchasing groups based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 79 collective purchasing groups headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,186 professional contacts across them, including 655 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers collective purchasing groups headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest collective purchasing groups based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 334 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1974 to aggregate the procurement spend of our owning local authorities, we continue to help drive efficiency savings through our bulk buying power for product…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ESPO is a customer-focused, public sector-owned professional buying organisation, serving the public sector and education establishments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IPC EMEA (formally IPC Europe) was formed in 2001 to enable Subway Franchisees to benefit from the discounts that come from purchasing and supplying products in large volumes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unitas Wholesale is the UK’s largest independent wholesale buying group, supporting a network of 124 members across 285 distribution points.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SAVING BUSINESSES TIME AND MONEY: By leveraging the size and scale of our business and the collective purchasing power of over Regency members, we help organisations to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CHIC is a collaborative, not for profit, member owned and governed consortium that delivers compliant procurement solutions and commercial support to our members in partnership…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Wholesale Buying Group is a unique trading group that negotiates deals across a wider range of product categories than any other trading group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Woldmarsh is a leading farmers’ co-operative, with over 1,100 members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our commitment: cut your costs without cutting corners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1991, Caterforce is one of the largest foodservice buying & marketing consortiums in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lynx Purchasing works with more than 2,200 customers in the hospitality and catering sector, on a no-membership and no-contract basis that offers like-for-like products at lower…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AWEBB is an independent negotiation body providing members with unrivalled security and confidence that they are part of a cohesive team that is working toward a common goal with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Procuria is the dedicated buying platform for independent businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We see change as an opportunity Formed as a merger of two established, multi award-winning companies in 2021, Eazzi is reshaping how businesses source their supplies and negotiate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2001, Sirius Buying Group will get you ahead of the competition with its collective trade purchasing power of more than £120 million+.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From carrots to cleaning products or a convection oven, we help businesses to buy better every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Highly ambitious and award winning procurement system aiming to be the largest procurement group specifically focused on Healthcare and Education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is: “to be the best buying consortium in the care sector and a valuable source of support for our members”” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cedabond is a UK wide Buying and Marketing Consortium of more than 140 leading catering equipment distributors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to the Supply & Save website.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HPQ.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Purchasing Support Services command an extensive network of supply source, bringing together a critical combination of product availability with competitive pricing in a dynamic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A dynamic approach has taken Clifton Buying Group to the forefront of procurement - delivering cost savings and efficiencies to all sectors of business across the UK and Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IPA provides fully supported purchasing services that maximise operational, financial and procurement performance for a wide range of single-site independent businesses and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 2008 Nick Watchorn, a landlord frustrated by the difficulty in finding good quality products for his rental properties, came up with a simple idea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: collective purchasing groups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names collective purchasing groups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of collective purchasing groups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name collective purchasing groups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Collective purchasing groups based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 79 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among collective purchasing groups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “collective purchasing groups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names collective purchasing groups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among collective purchasing groups, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 655 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names collective purchasing groups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many collective purchasing groups are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 79 collective purchasing groups headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
YPO, headquartered in Wakefield, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most collective purchasing groups?
London leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (4) and Reading (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 655 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 79 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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