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The Standing List · Logistics and warehousing · 250–4,999 staff
Ordered by band, never by a single number.
Lists are always sliced by industry and by size band. There is no single national list and no global number one, because a comparison across sectors and sizes is a comparison of different things.
What a row must carry
The counted reports, the verified count, the estimated headcount, the confidence and the date range — in the row itself. Never in a footnote, never on hover.
Movement between quarters
Shown as band movement, never as point deltas. Two employers a few points apart are in the same band, and the list says so rather than implying a difference the evidence cannot support.
II
The list · Cohort 1 July – 30 September 2026, published 8 October 2026
Eight employers, every one at High confidence.
High confidence on every row is a gate, not a preference: a list is a comparative claim, and a comparison is only as good as its weakest member.
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84
Good75–89
Meridian Freight Group
High confidence · 214 reports · 139 verified · est. 3,100 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 6 · T3-R 2 · T2 139 · T1 58 · T0 17 · rubric v1.2
Band heldRight of reply open
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79
Good75–89
Halloway Cold Chain
High confidence · 156 reports · 98 verified · est. 1,450 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 3 · T3-R 1 · T2 98 · T1 44 · T0 14 · rubric v1.2
Up from FairRight of reply open
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71
Fair60–74
High confidence · 88 reports · 54 verified · est. 1,200 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 4 · T3-R 1 · T2 54 · T1 26 · T0 8 · rubric v1.2
Band heldRight of reply open
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68
Fair60–74
Pentland Freight
High confidence · 121 reports · 77 verified · est. 2,400 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 5 · T3-R 2 · T2 77 · T1 33 · T0 11 · rubric v1.2
Band heldRight of reply open
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66
Fair60–74
Auslink Distribution
High confidence · 97 reports · 61 verified · est. 890 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 2 · T3-R 1 · T2 61 · T1 27 · T0 9 · rubric v1.2
Down from GoodRight of reply open
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61
Fair60–74
Redgate Warehousing
High confidence · 143 reports · 88 verified · est. 1,800 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 4 · T3-R 1 · T2 88 · T1 41 · T0 14 · rubric v1.2
Band heldRight of reply open
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55
Below standard40–59
Sandow & Pike Logistics
High confidence · 109 reports · 66 verified · est. 760 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 6 · T3-R 2 · T2 66 · T1 31 · T0 12 · rubric v1.2
Down from FairRight of reply open
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48
Below standard40–59
Kestrel Supply Chain
High confidence · 174 reports · 112 verified · est. 4,200 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 7 · T3-R 3 · T2 112 · T1 47 · T0 15 · rubric v1.2
Band heldRight of reply open
III
Not on this list, and why
Exclusion is published, not silent.
An employer left off a list without explanation reads as an employer with nothing against it. These three are excluded by rule, and the rule is named in each case.
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62 · Fair · 60–74 · Moderate confidence · 14 reports · 6 verified · est. 900 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 5 · T3-R 2 · T2 6 · T1 6 · T0 2 · rubric v1.2
Confidence is Moderate. Gate 1 requires High on every row.
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44 · Below standard · 40–59 · Low confidence · 8 reports · 3 verified · est. 600 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 4 · T3-R 1 · T2 3 · T1 3 · T0 2 · rubric v1.2
Confidence is Low. The score publishes on its own profile, marked not for citation, and it is not eligible for a list.
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Insufficient confidence · est. 1,500 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026
No score publishes at all — the sample is below the minimum reporting threshold. The employer still carries a documented Adverse Flag on its profile.
IV
The four gates
A ranked list publishes only when all four hold.
A named ordering of employers is the most defamatory-in-effect artefact this product can make. Until all four gates hold, Decent Mark publishes flag-based tables of public records instead.
- High confidence on every row. Not Moderate.
- At least one Adverse Flag on every row of a low-standing list. Every Adverse Flag is documentary by definition, so this is a coverage requirement.
- Right of reply solicited from every named employer before publication, dated and logged, and the reply rendered on the list itself where one is given.
- Counsel sign-off on the actual list copy — the headline, the column labels, the row strings — not on the concept.