Reid Brothers UK have been in the game a long time and 2018 marked a special occasion for the company. In 2018, we reached our sesquicentennial anniversary, celebrating 150 years in trading. — making us older than Irn-Bru.
As a small company based in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, we specialise in industrial strapping, banding and load securing equipment. Over the years we have built up a diverse group of customers within a wide range of industries including offshore, construction, manufacturing, and logistics, to name a few.
It’s an exciting time for our small company which started back in 1868 with just 2 men to its name. The founders of Reid Brothers, Joseph Reid and William Hutchison began the company trading as engineering and colliery furnishers, reaching out to miners in the Scottish trade.
Becoming an established business just 12 years later, the company began trading internationally and became well known worldwide, with several offices opening up in Johannesburg, South Africa and throughout various cities in Australia. Reid Brothers began to thrive internationally, however, it was the South African office where the business started to boom.