Welcome to the WCF Family

Operation for over 110 years

WCF is an established, private company, partly owned by its employees, operating several autonomous businesses focussed on niche retailing and specialist distribution. Originally established as an agricultural co-operative in 1911, we continue to improve earnings, enhance shareholder dividends and create sustainable year-on-year growth through our engaged workforce. We invest in a unique mix of diverse businesses occupying strong market positions in the niche sectors in which they operate. Our current portfolio of businesses includes niche retailing and distribution. We provide stability of ownership, financial strength, strategic input and leadership support to help those businesses succeed and generate long-term value and sustainable levels of return for all its shareholders. Each business is managed independently, utilising our decentralised structure to ensure that they have the autonomy, authority and the agility they need to react to local market conditions and competitive forces. We are partly owned by our employees and aim to utilise this structure to achieve higher levels of employee engagement than our competitors, whilst sharing the benefits of co-owned success with all our colleagues. Currently focussed in niche retailing and distribution, we aim to diversify the sectors in which we operate by finding, acquiring, integrating, investing in and building other strong niche businesses.

Interested in Knowing more about WCF

Join our Family

WCF Fuels North East is proud to be part of WCF. WCF is a private company, part owned by its employees, with a strong heritage and legacy dating back to 1911. WCF invests in a unique mix of diverse businesses occupying strong market positions in the niche sectors in which they operate. Our current portfolio of businesses includes niche retailing, leisure and oil distribution. Through stability of ownership, financial strength, strategic input and leadership support we help our individual businesses generate long-term value and sustainable levels of return for our shareholders.

Employee Owned

Our employee ownership business model provides our people with a personal interest in our continued and sustained success and the freedom to make a meaningful difference to our performance through the use of their Employee Voice. With shared values and a collective sense of purpose we are all united around the same ambitions and mission for the business. Each of our employee owners shares financially in our success through our annual cash award of an Employee Ownership Dividend and the issue of free shares if we hit our profit targets. This creates a lasting bond with the company and encourages high levels of employee loyalty and retention. Each WCF business is managed independently, utilising our decentralised structure to ensure that they have the autonomy, authority and the agility they need to react to local market conditions and competitive forces to make good decisions on behalf of our customers.

Our Benefits

As part of a larger family of businesses we are able to offer many additional company benefits including learning and development opportunities, access to our pension scheme, as well as the ability to purchase WCF shares. Other benefits include access to our comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (“EAP”), access to online and high street discounts and wellbeing resources.

Our Mission

To create a workplace where every individual matters and has a unique opportunity to make a difference in our performance with meaningful, diverse and interesting roles. We foster a culture of continued learning and development, and our teams are encouraged to take on new roles and develop both their technical and their leadership skills. Our focus on the behaviours that reinforce our values and promote good employee engagement means that we enjoy high levels of long service and employee retention. Our teams are encouraged to use their employee voice to help us be better and improve their workplace.

Supporting Local Causes

We are proud to offer local people diverse and interesting roles as well as supporting charities that are meaningful to our employees. The company offers match fundraising on the efforts of our team and encourages volunteering in the local community

Find out more

To listen to our team talking about what it’s like to work for WCF take a look at our range of videos HERE. If you want to know more about our vision, mission, purpose and values visit www.wcf.co.uk to learn more. If you are interested in joining our family, please check our current vacancies at https://www.wcf.co.uk/recruitment-wcf.