About Us
Swift Logistics Group

Our Mission

Our mission is to develop and deliver innovative, relevant and sustainable logistics solutions for our clients. To do this, we engage with our people and our partners to gain a thorough understanding of our clients’ needs. This approach ensures that we deliver not only on immediate requirements but also on long-term aspirations.

Over recent years, Swift Group of Companies have grown our Logistics Divisions across the UK, meaning we are exceptionally well placed to deliver best-in-class services nationally. We have achieved this growth organically and through careful, strategic acquisition.

Swift was established in Newbury, Berkshire, in 1989. We started the business armed with a passion for express courier, a single motorcycle and a twelve-year-old Transit van; the Group is now one of the largest and most dynamic privately owned immediate deployment operations in the UK. We have a fleet of over 150 vehicles, ranging from a motorcycle to a 7.5 ton tail-lift lorry. Our wider imprint is boosted to over 700 vehicles when including our partner network of associated fleets, to which we have direct and controlling access.

There is, however, much more to the company, as Swift Courier Service is just one of four distinct divisions within the group. Another division, Swift Overnight Services, offers next-day delivery across the UK via our partner network - APC Overnight. With a network of 116 depots, we are proud to offer a level of consistency and success that is unrivalled by the more globally recognised names in the market.

This level of performance has led to APC’s proud reputation as the professional's premier choice for time-sensitive, assured delivery services. It is, therefore, the ideal partner for Swift's Courier Services, a mainstay of the Group. In 2013, APC was voted Motor Transport's Network of the Year.

We harnessed our skills, experience and knowledge of moving valuable items around the country and applied it to the medical sector to create Swift Medical Logistics. Via this division, we provide vital logistical solutions to public and private businesses within the medical supply chain. This critical service includes supporting trauma response, delivering essential equipment to controlled environments such as operating theatres and ITUs, and even supporting dialysis patients in their own homes.

Swift Logistic Solutions is the division of the business that effectively pulls the other services together. From raw materials to finished product, this allows us to offer a comprehensive, bespoke supply chain solution.

Courier services have traditionally been regarded as simple and unnuanced, a back door to front door service. Swift Group, through the integration and seamless coordination of specialist divisions, now offer holistic supply chain solutions. The services we have refined range from product management, importation, and Customs clearance through to picking, packing, despatch and, ultimately, delivery and deployment.

Just want to express what great work UNIT A team have done over the last few days with the Gamma ATA. Not only completing the 500 priority order within timescale, but also making sure all other 66 back orders have now been completed

What a great effort!!! 😊

We attribute our company’s continued growth over the past 30 years to our refusal to lose sight of the most important indicator in business: our customers’ needs and wants. By harnessing our clearly established understanding of our clients’ aspirations and challenges, we make sure our products are the best and most relevant on the market. Every business has its own needs and priorities: by ensuring the flow of materials through that organisation efficiently and effectively, we allow our clients to focus on their own speciality and ultimate commercial success.

Swift's logistical expertise led to our partnering with TfL for the London 2012 Olympics. We were chosen to appear on BBC Breakfast, where we explained how the company was ensuring deliveries were maintained during Europe's largest logistical challenge since the Second World War. Our high-profile involvement in such a major undertaking demonstrated our readiness to deliver at any scale and to the highest standard.

Increasingly, Swift's Management teams are present inside our clients’ board rooms and management meetings. As our professional relationships develop, more businesses recognise that Swift can offer strategic support above and beyond our standard commercial offer. Our contribution can make a real impact on performance, both practically and financially. Indeed, many clients now have Swift personnel implanted within their own customer service, order processing and logistics teams, helping to perform key functions which had historically fallen upon the client themselves.

A business like Swift is, of course, ultimately only as good as its last delivery. We maintain our standards by refusing to compromise on the calibre of staff we employ. The Swift Group of Companies has a rigorous selection process, and we offer every one of our team members a comprehensive induction programme and ongoing training. We do not see our drivers as simply representing Swift; they are, by default, an extension of the companies we serve.

At Swift, we are proud to be an Express Logistics company with a local focus and a global reach.