Meet the Team

The Tanners Team

Tanners is family-owned, family run and resolutely independent. It is run by James Tanner, Chairman, who is the fourth generation of the family to work in the company. The firm employs more than 100 people, with the majority split between its distinctive, black & white headquarters in Shrewsbury and its distribution depot in Wales.

Approximately half of Tanners' sales are to quality- minded hotels and restaurants and half to private clients and corporate customers such as universities, colleges and companies - not only locally but countrywide too. Good traditional service is what Tanners is about, but 'traditional' in the best sense of the word. We find it easier to deliver this with a core of long- serving staff and we are lucky in this respect. Tanners currently have 16 members of staff who have completed 30 years with the company.

Whether over the telephone, on the shop floor or at tastings, it is crucial for us to give you friendly, down-to-earth advice at whatever level you require. We recruit people who already have an interest in wine, food and travel and then put them through our own training course as well as the Wine & Spirit Education Trust examinations. At a company the size of Tanners, it is easy for staff to taste regularly, to have regular contact with the buying team and to travel to the vineyards whenever trips available. And, if your questions cannot be answered immediately, our many long-serving staff members provide a vast bank of wisdom to draw upon.