Brand guide · The UK dealer’s view
Danish steel.
Swansea service.
TEFCOLD has spent 35 years doing one thing: display refrigeration that sells your stock and doesn’t punish the electricity bill. This is the brand from the dealer’s side of the counter — live prices, honest verdicts, no brochure talk.
The story
TEFCOLD A/S is a Danish company, headquartered at Industrivej 25 in Viborg, that has spent more than 35 years doing one thing: commercial cooling and freezing for food and beverages.
That focus matters. Plenty of badges in the UK display-fridge market are trading names bolted onto whatever a factory had spare that season. TEFCOLD is the opposite — a single brand, a stable range, consistent model families that evolve year on year rather than vanishing and reappearing under new numbers. When you need a matching second unit eighteen months later, that consistency is worth real money.
And here’s the bit most buyers get wrong: they file TEFCOLD under “bottle coolers and ice-cream freezers” and stop there. Our live catalogue tells a different story — serve-over counters for butchers and fishmongers, keg coolers for cellars, and complete walk-in cold rooms sit alongside the display cabinets. It’s a genuine one-brand fit-out option, not just the impulse chiller by the till.
TEFCOLD’s whole operation is built around holding stock, with a UK arm keeping the supply line into Britain short. Lead times on common lines are counted in days — which matters twice: once when you’re fitting out, and again the day something needs replacing mid-season.
The range in numbers
Numbers first, sales talk second. This is the TEFCOLD range as it stands in our live catalogue this month — not a brochure estimate: around 300 lines, a £1,736 median cabinet price, and a full band from £88 spares to an £8,151 walk-in freezer room. All + VAT.
Spares and accessories (from £88 + VAT), compact bottle coolers and counter-top display. Buy-outright territory — finance doesn’t apply below £1,000.
Most TEFCOLD display cabinets live here — chest displays, ice-cream freezers, upright glass-door units like the NF7500G triple-door (£2,266 + VAT at this review). The catalogue median of £1,736 + VAT sits square in this band — roughly £9.30 a week on 5-year finance terms.
Serve-over counters (the SOCA-F37590B at £8,019 + VAT), premium Galaxy+ glass-door freezers (£7,183 + VAT) and complete walk-in freezer rooms topping out at the CRNF3030. Fit-out territory — spread the cost and spec it with an engineer.
Prices move as the catalogue updates — the live explorer below always shows today’s figures, and anything over £1,000 can be turned into a weekly figure with our finance calculator.
A £1,736 median cabinet price tells the story better than any brochure: Danish brand discipline, priced below the premium continental names.The dealer’s verdict · Craven Cooling, Swansea
Where TEFCOLD earns its keep
The short version, from the people who sell and service this kit:
Front-of-house display is the sweet spot
Bottle coolers behind a bar, glass-door merchandisers in a shop, ice-cream displays in a café window, chest displays on a forecourt — this is what the brand is built around, and where we fit it most.
Value with a pedigree
Danish brand discipline and a consistent range, priced below the premium continental names — the working answer when a business wants display chill that looks right and keeps margin sensible.
Deeper than its reputation
Serve-overs for butchers and fishmongers, keg coolers, walk-in rooms — if you thought TEFCOLD stopped at the drinks fridge, the catalogue will surprise you. Single-brand fit-outs are realistic.
Where we’d point you elsewhere
Heavy back-of-house storage that gets hammered by a brigade all day is a different conversation — that’s workhorse upright territory; see our kitchen refrigeration guide. TEFCOLD’s job is to sell your stock — buy it for that.
The range, line by line
Upright glass-door freezers
Single, double and triple doorFrozen impulse lines, ice-cream tubs, frozen bakery — full-height glass display that turns a freezer into a salesman. The triple-door NF7500G is the flagship scale; the Galaxy+ series the premium face.
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Display chest freezers
Our biggest TEFCOLD category — 56 linesThe forecourt and convenience classic: customer-openable chest display, flat or curved sliding glass lids, stock visible from above.
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Ice-cream displays
Scoop displays and sliding-lid chestsStatic-cooled scoop displays for gelato counters and sliding-lid chests for wrapped impulse — a TEFCOLD stronghold. Not sure which cooling suits your product? Read the static vs ventilated guide.
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Serve-over counters
Flat-glass, meat and fish displayThe surprise of the range: proper serve-overs including dedicated meat and fish display counters — butcher, fishmonger and deli territory.
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Walk-in cold rooms
Fridge and freezer roomsComplete TEFCOLD walk-in fridges and freezers up to the CRNF3030 freezer room. Cold rooms need a survey and proper sizing — we do both before we quote.
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Bar: bottle and keg chill
Back-bar and cellarUnder-counter bottle coolers for the back bar plus dedicated keg coolers for the cellar — plan the servery with our bar fit-out guide.
Browse the range →What it costs to run
A display unit runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year — so the energy label is a price tag that keeps charging you after the invoice is paid. TEFCOLD offers A and B energy-rated cabinets across the display range, and at the standard 27p/kWh commercial rate the difference is real money:
Never compare two display cabinets on ticket price alone. Take the kWh figure off each datasheet and run it through our energy label decoder — it turns the label into pounds per year and shows the payback on the more efficient unit.
The live range explorer
This is our actual TEFCOLD catalogue, live — prices straight from the store, filtered by what you’re shopping for. Tap a category, or search a model number:
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Can’t see the line you’re after? We stock or source the full TEFCOLD range — call 01792 732702 with the model number and we’ll quote today’s price and lead time.
Buying TEFCOLD wisely
A dealer’s checklist — the five questions we’d ask before you spend a pound:
Size the display to the stock, not the gap in the wall
Display refrigeration sells what it shows — a unit stuffed past its load line cools badly and sells worse. Measure your best-seller facings first.
Check the energy class against the running hours
Run the kWh figure through the energy label decoder before you compare prices — the cheaper cabinet is sometimes the dearer one by year three.
Static or ventilated cooling for ice cream
Scoop gelato and wrapped impulse lines want different cooling behaviour — the static vs ventilated guide explains which TEFCOLD line matches your product.
Walk-in rooms need a survey, not a guess
The walk-in rooms at the top of the range are building projects in miniature — floor, drainage, condenser position, door swing. We survey before we quote; the cold room guide covers what matters.
Plan the spend, not just the price
Anything over £1,000 can be spread — the finance calculator turns a cabinet price into a weekly figure so you can see it against the margin it will make you.
Backed in South Wales
Buy TEFCOLD from Craven Cooling and it comes with the same backing as everything we sell: a 2-year parts warranty on our equipment sales, F-Gas-registered engineers, and a Swansea showroom where you can see display refrigeration working before you commit.
We service what we supply — so the day a compressor grumbles or a door seal goes, you’re calling the people who sold it to you, not a call centre. TEFCOLD’s own UK operation keeps spare-parts lead times sensible (our catalogue even lists the spares lines). If a unit is already misbehaving, start with our fridge troubleshooter — and if it needs eyes on it, book an engineer.
TEFCOLD FAQs
TEFCOLD A/S is a Danish commercial refrigeration company headquartered in Viborg, Denmark. It has supplied commercial cooling and freezing equipment for food and beverages for over 35 years and describes itself as one of the market leaders in the sector, with over 70,000 units held in stock and a dedicated UK operation.
In our experience as a dealer: yes, for the jobs they are designed for. TEFCOLD’s strength is front-of-house display refrigeration — glass-door merchandisers, bottle coolers, display and ice-cream freezers — where it offers Danish brand consistency at a working price. For heavy back-of-house storage we would usually point you to a dedicated workhorse range instead.
Far more than most buyers expect. Alongside the well-known glass-door display freezers, chest displays, ice-cream displays and bottle coolers, our TEFCOLD catalogue includes serve-over counters with dedicated meat and fish display, keg coolers, and complete walk-in fridge and freezer rooms.
From our live catalogue in July 2026: spares and accessories start at £88, mainstream display cabinets cluster around a £1,736 median, and the range tops out at £8,151 for a walk-in freezer room — all + VAT. Anything over £1,000 can be spread on finance; the median cabinet works out at roughly £9.30 a week on 5-year terms.
Usually quickly. TEFCOLD’s model is built on stock availability — the company states over 70,000 units held ready for fast delivery, supported by its UK arm. Call us on 01792 732702 with the model and we will confirm today’s lead time to South Wales.
The range includes A and B energy-rated cabinets, which matters on equipment that runs around the clock. At the standard 27p/kWh rate, the difference between a 5 kWh/day and an 8 kWh/day cabinet is nearly £300 a year — check the kWh figure on the datasheet and run it through our energy label decoder.
Craven Cooling supplies TEFCOLD equipment from Swansea, covering South Wales — with a 2-year parts warranty on our equipment sales, F-Gas-registered engineers and a showroom where you can see units before buying. We service what we sell, and spare-parts supply is supported by TEFCOLD’s UK operation.
It depends on the sightline and the floor space. Upright glass-door units display more stock per square foot of floor and sell at eye level; chest displays win where customers browse from above and where aisle height is limited. Our team will talk it through for your shop — call 01792 732702.
We’ll spec the cabinet.
Showroom in Swansea, delivery UK-wide, 2-year parts warranty on our equipment sales — and a live catalogue of around 300 TEFCOLD lines.