Expo Hire has supplied Glastonbury Festival for eight years, providing commercial refrigeration and LPG gas for site operations.
Expo Hire has supplied Glastonbury Festival for eight years, providing commercial refrigeration and LPG gas for site operations.
Expo Hire has been an approved supplier at Glastonbury Festival for eight consecutive years. The site covers hundreds of acres, runs for five days, and operates dozens of food and drink concessions alongside backstage catering, artist hospitality and production facilities.
The organiser's requirement: reliable cold storage for food vendors, display chillers for beverage sales, walk-in cold rooms for high-volume units, and LPG to run cooking equipment and water heaters across the site.
Glastonbury's logistics are unlike any urban venue. Access roads flood after rain. The festival runs across multiple fields with different ground conditions and access points. Our team planned delivery routes and collection windows before the site opened and maintained contact with site teams throughout.
LPG supply runs continuously during the festival. Expo Hire managed cylinder exchanges across the site so traders didn't run out during service. Refrigeration faults happen — our team stayed reachable to respond without disrupting a vendor's trading day.
The eight-year relationship reflects consistency more than anything else. The site changes from year to year — different vendor mixes, different layout, new infrastructure requirements. We adapted our supply to match each year's brief while keeping the same standard of delivery, maintenance and collection.
A festival site needs a supplier who can plan for difficult access, keep equipment running across multiple days, and respond quickly when something goes wrong. Cold storage failures cost traders a full day's stock. A reliable LPG supply is the difference between a kitchen that trades and one that stops at noon.
