Recommended partner · Branded freezers
Gastro-Cool
Branded chest, glass-door and countertop freezers from a German manufacturer that prints your artwork on the unit from a single piece and ships it to the UK. When a store says yes to the product and no to finding freezer space, this is the answer.
Visit gastro-cool.eu
What they do
Figures from gastro-cool.eu (branding service, home page) and gastro-cool.de (about us), read September 2026. Gastro-Cool GmbH & Co. KG, Willich, Germany.
Why I send founders there
The freezer is the listing.
Most of the brands I work with are frozen. The biggest reason a convenience store or farm shop says no to a frozen line is not the product and not the price. It is that the freezer is full, or there is no freezer at all. A branded unit that arrives on a pallet, plugs in and holds your range takes that objection off the table.
Gastro-Cool makes the formats that fit those stores. Round promotional chest freezers from 43 litres for events and counters. Glass-lid chest freezers at 100 and 300 litres, the 300 holding around 1,200 ice lollies or 275 half-litre bottles. Small glass-door uprights from 25 litres up. Illuminated display freezers at 72 and 380 litres for a proper branded bay. All on the R600a refrigerant, most in energy class B to D, with prices on the site.
The part that matters for a founder is the minimum order. Branding from one unit means you can put a freezer into your first three stockists without committing to a container load. When the range proves itself, the same artwork scales.
They also run a warehousing service. They hold your branded units and dispatch them to your stockists as the listings land, which turns a freezer programme into a phone call rather than a logistics job.
Product photography from gastro-cool.de. Shown unbranded. Every panel is printable.
Frozen brand with a store that wants the product and has nowhere to put it? Price a branded unit before the meeting, not after.
See the branding serviceWhere it fits
Stages 03 and 04. The door, then the fixture.
The right doors
A buyer who likes the range but has no freezer space is a yes waiting for a unit. Walking in with a priced, branded freezer changes the conversation from whether to where.
Opens doorsListed
Your own fixture means your own facings, your own point of sale, and no neighbour's product sliding into your space. Rate of sale in a branded unit is yours to manage.
Holds the spaceSelling
Countertop and round units work at events, sampling days and farm shop counters, which is where a founder-led frozen brand builds its first repeat customers.
SamplingGood to know
Before you order.
- This is a German company selling in euros. The UK is on their delivery list and they exhibit at UK trade shows, but there is no UK entity, UK pricing or UK phone number. Expect import handling on the way in and ask who carries the customs paperwork before you pay.
- Warranty is one year and the after-sales service is described as Germany-wide. For a unit sitting in a farm shop in Yorkshire, agree up front how a fault gets handled.
- Artwork has to be print-ready: one file per side, PDF, CMYK, 150 dpi minimum, fonts outlined, 10 mm bleed. They check files for free before printing. Build the time for that into the two to three week lead time.
- Delivery is usually four to eight working days after the goods are loaded, by two-man freight or kerbside courier. Transport damage has to be noted on the delivery note before you sign, or the claim is not accepted.
- Their website runs across three domains and the English catalogue is thinner than the German one. If a product page is missing in English, it is usually on gastro-cool.de.
Shipping, warranty, artwork and delivery detail from the gastro-cool.eu FAQ, branding and distribution pages, September 2026.
Next step
Want a freezer programme to go with the listing?
Quotes come direct from Gastro-Cool through the branding page above. If you want help choosing the format for the stores you are actually targeting, or want the unit priced into your trade terms so the buyer sees one number, that is a conversation I am happy to have.
You contract with Gastro-Cool directly, on their terms.