About us

About us

Our Story

New Spitalfields Market is Britain’s premier wholesale fruit and vegetable market. The market is a purpose-built site, in Leyton, East London, which opened in 1991. It is the largest revenue-earning fresh produce and flower market in the UK.

The market’s location provides direct and easy access to the motorway network, and all nearby ports and airports, enabling more than 100 companies to offer a range of healthy and nutritious fresh produce to their customers, sourced year-round from every corner of the world.

These highly specialised firms predominantly serve customers across London and the Home Counties and our site is ideally placed to serve the rest of the UK and continental Europe too.

The wide mix of cultural and ethnic backgrounds within the New Spitalfields Market trading community ensures that we have a basket of fresh produce satisfies the culinary preferences of all cultures.

The depth and flavour of the New Spitalfields offer has been enriched by the presence of tenants specialising in exotic fruits and vegetables, as well as catering and food service firms serving public and private sector customers across London.

There is no more diverse market in the country and that fact contributes hugely to the market’s ability to stay at the forefront of its trade and service the rapidly changing needs of the 21st century wholesale market customer base.

Wholesale Market of the year for 2025

This is a market with one million customers each year and 130 merchants that actively engage with the community championing sustainability, waste food waste initiatives and continually adapting to industry trends.

It has a partnership with City Harvest, a charitable organisation, that has integrated rescued food into distribution networks which then reaches shelters, community centres and struggling individuals resulting in 250,000 meals being distributed to assist its city’s most vulnerable in 2024. The market continues to work to a sustainable future encouraging vendors, buyers and employees to adopt greener transportation options, reducing carbon emissions and promoting a cleaner environment.

This market continues to be successful by collaboration with tenants to address waste reduction, take on environmental initiatives, improve health and safety outcomes and offering and effectively communicating the case for change.