CoolKit designs new delivery van for cupcake company

By Tim Aldred

25 Aug 2023

Coolkit and Lolas Cupcakes

Burnley-based CoolKit has created an industry-first van conversion for a London-based cupcake business.

Established in 2006, Lola’s Cupcakes bakes and delivers more than 20,000 cupcakes and more than 1,200 large celebration cakes every day, many of which are transported in CoolKit refrigerated van conversions.

Lola’s fleet of 31 vehicles delivers the delicacies from its West London bakery to branded outlets in tube and railway stations across London, its concessions in Selfridges and Harrods, and to delivery destinations nationally.

Now the two companies have designed and developed a new style van which both showcases the Lola's produce as it delivers to outlets across the capital and nationwide, while maintaining precise temperature control to uphold food hygiene regulations and ensure compliance with low emission zones.

CoolKit has worked with Lola’s Cupcakes since 2018, when it first provided two converted Ford Connect vans. The latest order marks vehicle number 17 from CoolKit.

The new concept build is a refrigerated conversion of a Maxus e-Deliver 3. Believed to be the first-of-its-kind in the confectionery delivery sector, the CoolKit-designed electrically powered body has large display windows at the rear of the vehicle and a viewing panel down each side to showcase the cakes onboard the van as they travel across London and beyond.

The requirement for transparent viewing panels meant that the CoolKit team had to design bespoke bodywork to ensure that the temperatures required could still be maintained when using an alternative material to a standard conversion.

Asher Budwig, managing director at Lola’s Cupcakes, said: "Lola’s transport manager finds that people are always asking if we have cupcakes on board our vans, so we thought that finding a way to showcase the product as it’s heading to its destination would be a clever way to advertise.

"We also attend a number of events. In the past we have set up tables but with this vehicle we can sell directly out of the van. And we can carry extra stock so that our drivers can sell to the public as they are out on deliveries as an additional revenue creator. I’m excited to get the vehicle out on the road.”

In addition, this year, CoolKit has supplied Lola’s Cupcakes with two larger electric converted Maxus e-Deliver 9 vehicles – which are seen as the future of the transportation industry, with battery options and battery cooling methods that significantly reduce charging time, extend battery life and increase operating range.

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