Edge Worldwide Logistics

This family-run firm provides logistics services across sea, air, road and rail. It operates in a range of sectors such as food, fashion and chemicals, and it helped to arrange PPE transportation for non-governmental organisations at the start of the pandemic. The company’s customers include retailers such as Iceland, THG and The Entertainer. Chairman Alan Edge founded EWL in 1989 and his son Philip is chief executive. The Salford-based company has four UK offices, as well as bases in Vietnam and Thailand.