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Who We Are

Short history

The initial concept for our Really Useful Boxes came from our owner who as an Accountant at a plastic's Company wanted a transparent, strong, stacking storage box to store his archive records. After exhaustive searches he was unable to locate such a product so in good old fashion tradition created it himself.

We have now evolved this concept into archival storage for CDs, VHS tapes, DVDs and LPs. We can now proudly claim to have the World's largest range of transparent, strong, stacking storage boxes.

We were established in 1999 to develop a range of innovative plastic storage boxes. As far as we can understand it was the first time that a plastic storage box was created from a users viewpoint. We had no previous container experience. The product does contain a great deal of original thought and we have a European and USA patent.

Most people that see our product are impressed by both its simplicity and ability to live up to its name of Really Useful Box. The concept is one of those obvious products that should have been available years ago.

From 1999 it took a year before we had a repeatable product that passed our vigorous quality requirements. We were fortunate that this coincided with both Staples UK and Makro UK committing to initial promotional trials. We subsequently introduced new sizes and new related products. These new products have been customer driven.

We have now significantly expanded our customer base and supply to companies like WH Smiths, Ryman's, Partners, Maplins and in mail order Viking Direct. We also send approximately 25% of our output outside the UK.

Our design criterion

Create quality products, designed for specific applications at affordable prices.

The future

We will continue to develop our range of products and geographic markets. For 2009 additional new ideas are being developed and tooled.

Our mission statement

Creation and successful marketing of quality products that offer real customer benefits at affordable prices. This is to be achieved through utilisation of modern management practices. Customer satisfaction is our overriding aim. We are a customer driven organisation.