ABOUT US
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Scoop
We are a small team operating
out of our production facility in
the Oxford Countryside.
out of our production facility in
the Oxford Countryside.
Our Story
Ice is often an overlooked ingredient but it is absolutely crucial to all of these, be it for chilling bottles, serving ice cold spirit and mixers or shaking cocktails.
Our sister company, Shaken & Stirred was born in 2006. Since then we have served 10s of 1000s of cocktails, spirit & mixers, beers, wine and champagne all over the UK and beyond.
After the first few years of trading, we realised we were spending lots of time and money sourcing and buying ice. This led us to purchase a commercial ice machine and a chest freezer.
We would bag up the ice and store it until we needed it for events. People started asking if they could buy some ice off us so we’d scoop some into a bag for them and Shaken & Stirred Ice was born. Before long we realised we needed some food safe packaging. We bought a box of 200 large bags.
They sold out within a couple of weeks so we bought more. We needed to find a way to seal the bags. £10 and a pair of hair strimmers later we had a bag sealer. Next was to buy a second cubed and a crushed ice machine. We then got some artwork made and put in a large order of 10,000 bags from China.
We have a small team and now produce up to 10 tonnes a week and deliver all over Oxfordshire supplying restaurants, bars, hotels, wedding venues, sports clubs, private residences and ice bathers. For larger orders we deliver to Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and Hampshire.
Again, they sold out very quickly so we ordered another 10,000. By 2019 we needed bigger premises and so moved to our current unit in the Oxfordshire countryside. We rebranded as the Oxford Ice Co. and bought several more machines including one that makes beautiful 45mm ice spheres.
“We’re a leading producer and supplier of the purest, UV filtered, crystal clear ice. With a passion for frozen H20 and an emphasis on great service, we use the industry standard machinery to produce the best ice in the business”