A commitment to traditional values of quality and service can be traced back to London’s Knightsbridge of 1952, and the founding ideals upon which Wilson (Sloane Street) Ltd was inaugurated by my father Charles Arthur Wilson.

Established to provide high quality meat products for the catering industry the company takes its name from the fifties Sloane Street shop in which it was born. Remember this was just before rationing finished after the second world war, and butchers shops were very restricted in customer base and indeed the supplies of meat.

My father's first catering order was to supply Whites Club in Mayfair. It is believed the first order was for a quantity of fresh roasting chicken delivered open in wooden crates (my how foodservices have changed!).

Since that time the company has followed a controlled growth path, moving in 1959 to Bethwin Road, Camberwell and again in 1970, to the current site on Coldharbour Lane. As business continued to expand so did the company’s facilities, with a new purpose built factory adjacent to the original Coldharbour Lane site in 1985. I first joined the company in 1986, after my apprenticeship butchering in Hampshire, at the age of twenty three.

My duties during the nineties included completely reviewing the company's working practices, introducing HACCP and management systems based upon ISO 9002.

1996 saw the introduction of a Unix based order processing computer system, which allows the company access to reports and financial data which are second to none in our industry. Benefits to the customer include faster and more accurate order taking processing and delivery, and the opportunity to receive comprehensive sales reports.

The turn of the century has seen exciting developments with this website and the catering tools that we developed during the last. We remain ever aware of the changing face of the marketplace, and expect to continue to meet the needs of today’s customers, while never compromising the standards set by my father in those early Knightsbridge days.