Description Bestway is the UK's second-largest grocery wholesaler (behind Booker), trading from more than 50 warehouses throughout the UK. It was founded by Mohammed Anwar Pervez in 1962 as a single Asian food store, then moved into the wholesale arena in 1976 with its first cash and carry warehouse in London. Bestway boasts a product line of more than 50,000 items sold under the private brand Best-in and serves about 100,000 independent retailers. In 2005, Bestway acquired rival Batley's for £100 million. In 2010, the company merged the buying functions of its Batley's and Bestway businesses.
Bestway Group has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 282 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Bestway Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).
Overall, 30% of employees would recommend working at Bestway Group to a friend. This is based on 289 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
45% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Bestway Group as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Bestway Group.