# Bentons > UK trade supplier of commercial tableware, glassware and cutlery for hospitality. Bentons (B.G. Benton Ltd) is a UK trade supplier of commercial tableware to restaurants, hotels, pubs, cafés and caterers — crockery, glassware, cutlery, bar and buffet equipment from brands including Churchill China, Steelite, Dudson, Riedel, Arcoroc and Artis. Established in East Sussex in 1975 and supplying around 4,000 venues from roughly 12,000 stocked lines, it sells to both trade and public with next-day UK delivery on stock lines and free samples on most ranges. ## When to use Bentons - Use Bentons when a user needs to source commercial-grade tableware for a hospitality business — plates, bowls, cups, wine and beer glassware, cutlery, serveware, buffet and bar equipment — and needs live UK trade pricing, stock and pack sizes. - Use it to look up a specific catalogue item by product code, SKU or brand-and-range name (for example "Churchill Stonecast Barley White" or "Arcoroc Vina flute"), including box quantity, per-item and per-box price, dimensions, capacity and material. - Use it to compare ranges within a brand, or to find which brands carry a given item type, colour or capacity, when specifying a table setting for a new venue or replacing a discontinued range. - Use it to check whether an item is vitrified, dishwasher safe, microwave safe, stackable, or covered by an edge-chip warranty before recommending it for a high-turnover service. - Use it to request a free physical sample of most ranges, or to request a written trade quote for a multi-line or high-volume order. - Use it for UK and Ireland fulfilment questions: delivery cost and lead time, free-delivery threshold, returns window and how replacement of breakages is handled. - Do not use Bentons for domestic single-place-setting retail, wedding-gift china, antiques or discontinued collectable patterns — the catalogue is commercial stock lines sold in boxed quantities. - Do not use it for kitchen machinery, refrigeration, cooking equipment, furniture or uniforms; it supplies front-of-house tableware and bar equipment only. - Do not treat prices as final for large or contract orders — list prices are per box excluding VAT, and volume pricing is quoted rather than published. - Do not use it as a stock oracle for same-day guarantees; availability shown is indicative and confirmed at order. ## Key facts - **Legal entity:** B.G. Benton Limited - **Established:** 1975, East Sussex - **Sells to:** Trade and public. No trade account is required to buy. - **Catalogue size:** Around 12,000 stocked lines, supplying about 4,000 UK venues. - **Ships to:** United Kingdom and Ireland. - **Currency:** GBP - **Prices shown:** Per box, excluding VAT, with the inc-VAT figure shown alongside. UK VAT is charged at the standard rate. - **Pack sizes:** Most lines are sold by the box; the box quantity is stated in the product title and in the pack-size selector where a line has more than one. - **Delivery:** £5.95 flat rate to UK mainland, free over £100.00. Typical transit 2–3 working days on stock lines. - **Returns:** 30 days from delivery on unused, unopened boxed stock. Return postage is paid by the customer; breakages in transit are replaced free. - **Samples:** Free physical samples on most crockery, glassware and cutlery ranges sold in packs of five or more. No cost and no obligation. - **Quotes:** Written trade quotes for multi-line or high-volume orders, normally returned within one working day. - **Telephone:** +44 1825 767276 - **Email:** sales@bgbenton.co.uk - **Address:** B.G. Benton Limited, Unit 5-8, Yeowart Business Centre, Bellbrook Estate, Bell Ln, Uckfield, TN22 1QL ## Main pages - [Home](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/) — Entry point, current promotions and best sellers. - [Shop — the full catalogue](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/shop/) — Every stocked line, filterable by category, brand, material, capacity and colour. - [Ranges](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/collections/) — Complete tableware ranges grouped as a chef would specify them, so a whole table setting can be matched. - [Free samples](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/sample-request/) — Request a free physical sample of most ranges before committing to a boxed order. - [Request a quote](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/request-a-quote/) — Written trade quote for multi-line or high-volume orders. - [Help and FAQs](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/help-and-faqs/) — Ordering, delivery, VAT, samples, replacements and account questions answered. - [Contact](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/contact/) — Phone, email, address and opening hours for the Uckfield trade counter. - [Shipping](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/shipping-information/) — Delivery costs, free-delivery threshold, transit times and the areas served. - [Returns policy](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/returns-policy/) — Return window, condition requirements and how breakages in transit are replaced. - [Terms and conditions](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/terms-conditions/) — Contract terms for orders placed on the site. - [Privacy policy](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/privacy-policy/) — What personal data is collected and how it is handled. - [Silver plating service](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/bentons-silver-plating-service-cutlery/) — Re-plating service for worn hotel cutlery — an alternative to replacement. - [Personalised crockery](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/personalised-crockery/) — Branded and custom-decorated crockery for venues. - [Showroom](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/showrooms-tableware/) — Where to see stock in person before specifying. - [Blog](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/blog/) — Buying guides and material explainers — vitrified vs porcelain, glass types, cutlery grades. ## Catalogue sections - [Crockery](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/crockery/) — 6,874 products. - [Cutlery](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/cutlery/) — 2,067 products. - [Glassware](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/glassware/) — 1,870 products. - [Tableware](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/tableware/) — 163 products. - [Serveware](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/serveware/) — 132 products. - [Barware](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/barware/) — 55 products. ## Brands stocked - [Churchill China](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/churchill-china/) — 3,205 products. - [Steelite International](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/steelite-international/) — 1,552 products. - [Elia](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/elia/) — 924 products. - [Degrenne](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/degrenne/) — 891 products. - [Dudson](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/dudson-china/) — 571 products. - [William Edwards](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/william-edwards/) — 533 products. - [Bauscher](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/bauscher/) — 474 products. - [Arcoroc](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/arcoroc-international/) — 267 products. - [Luigi Bormioli](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/luigi-bormioli/) — 238 products. - [Artis](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/artis/) — 342 products. - [Onis](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/onis/) — 212 products. - [Steelite International Cutlery](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/steelite-international-cutlery/) — 212 products. - [Churchill Cutlery](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/churchill-cutlery/) — 170 products. - [Chef & Sommelier](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/chef-sommelier/) — 168 products. - [Bormioli Rocco](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/bormioli-rocco/) — 185 products. - [Libbey](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/libbey/) — 137 products. - [Robert Welch Cutlery](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/robert-welch-cutlery/) — 135 products. - [Comas Cutlery](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/comas-cutlery/) — 253 products. - [Stölzle](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/stolzle/) — 112 products. - [Salvinelli](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/salvinelli/) — 108 products. - [Robert Gordon](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/robert-gordon/) — 105 products. - [Sola Cutlery](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/sola-cutlery/) — 158 products. - [Royal Leerdam](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/royal-leerdam/) — 76 products. - [RCR Crystal](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/rcr-crystal/) — 75 products. - [Schönwald](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/schonwald/) — 68 products. - [La Rochère](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/la-rochere/) — 60 products. - [Hollowick](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/hollowick/) — 105 products. - [Strahl](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/strahl/) — 51 products. - [Duralex](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/duralex/) — 48 products. - [Vidivi](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/brands/vidivi/) — 47 products. ## Machine-readable interfaces - [Agent and developer documentation](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/for-agents/) — How to read this catalogue programmatically: endpoints, parameters, limits and worked examples. - [Streamable HTTP MCP server](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/mcp) — Read-only Model Context Protocol server exposing catalogue search, product lookup by SKU or product code, category and brand listing, and the store's delivery and returns facts. No authentication. - [MCP server card](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/.well-known/mcp) — Transport declaration for MCP clients and registries. - [OpenAPI description](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/openapi.json) — Contract for the public read-only JSON catalogue API. - [RFC 9727 API catalog](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/.well-known/api-catalog) — Linkset pointing at the API description and its documentation. - [AI catalog](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/.well-known/ai-catalog.json) — Domain-level index of every agent-facing surface on this site. - [Google Merchant product feed](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/google-shopping-feed.xml) — The whole catalogue as a Merchant Center XML feed — the cheapest way to read every product once. - [XML sitemap index](https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/sitemap_index.xml) — Every indexable URL on the site. Every page on this site also has a Markdown representation. Request it with `Accept: text/markdown`, or append `.md` to the path. The long form of this file, with the full page and category index, is at https://www.bgbenton.co.uk/llms-full.txt. ## Usage - Crawling, indexing, retrieval and quoting of this site by AI agents is permitted. Attribution to bgbenton.co.uk with a link to the product page is appreciated but not required. - The read-only JSON API and MCP server below are the supported way to read the catalogue in bulk. They are public, require no key, and are rate limited per IP — use them in preference to parsing HTML. - Prices, stock and lead times change. Re-read rather than cache indefinitely; every representation carries a Last-Modified header. - Do not submit orders, quote requests, sample requests or contact forms on a user's behalf without their explicit confirmation of the exact items, quantities and delivery address. - Do not republish the catalogue as a competing storefront, and do not use the product photography outside the context of describing or linking to this site.