31/05/2026
Nine years ago Bestbind started in our garage.
One carpet binding machine, a van that had seen better days, two people who had absolutely no idea what they were doing but were completely convinced it could work.
We didn’t have a showroom, we didn’t have a team and we absolutely didn’t have much of a plan beyond “do good work and see what happens.”
Today we have two sites, Hixon Workshop and our Amerton Farm showroom. We have four fabulous people working with us who have grown eith us using proper systems, proper contracts, and a compliance process that would have bewildered 2017-us entirely.
People ask what the secret is.
There isn’t one.
What there is: nine years of showing up. Of doing the job right even when it would have been easier to do it quick. Of Carl measuring things seventeen times because precision matters and has always mattered. Of building a reputation in Staffordshire one job at a time, because word travels here and we knew it would, thats why we came, thats the Staffordshire way.
And of making mistakes, most definitely its what building a growing a business is all about, how would we learn otherwise, learning from them rather than pretending they didn’t happen.
We are not a perfect business but we are a good one, one we have built and know everything inside out, we always strive to be better and we are teaching that to the next generation.
I don’t know what year ten looks like yet. But I know we’ll still be here, still measuring properly, still caring more than is strictly efficient.
Here’s to the next ten. ❤️