About Us
Beaverswood® makes the workplace work smarter with our range of visual management products, suitable for lean manufacturing and 5S - or any workplace that needs to be safe, productive, and in order.
With decades of experience, a committed team, and a growing line up of products trusted by customers worldwide, we’re proud to be a leader in warehouse ID and visual management solutions.
Explore our journey, meet the people behind our success, and see how we’re making a difference in the workplace!
Our Vision, Mission, and Values
Our Vision
To become the global go-to brand for resellers and end-users of visual management and industrial identification solutions.
Our Mission
Brightening workplaces worldwide with clever, colourful, and innovative solutions that make organisation effortless, safety a given, and efficiency an easy part of the job - all with our usual Beaverswood® charm and quality.
As part of IWS Group, we have four value pillars. These value pillars are underpinned by two foundational values.
Value Pillars
- We know our market and industry.
- As individuals, we’re experts in our own roles and within our professional fields.
- We always share our knowledge, educating our audience and leading.
- We strive to be the ‘best in class’ in our fields of expertise.
- We consult and work with our customers to guide them with confidence, assurance and expertise.
- We have a passion for the project that takes us beyond just ‘doing a good job’.
- We have a pride and energy that shows in the delivery of our work.
- We are responsible for our deliverables, and we take ownership for our work.
- We see everything through from start to finish and we always make it happen.
- Every day we strive to be at our best.
- We like to challenge the status quo and set new benchmarks.
- We never stand still; always updating, always adding value, always improving the performance of the products we manufacture and the solutions we deliver.
- We’re quick on our feet and we’re extremely fast to respond to change.
- We are adaptive and versatile, always staying one step ahead.
- We make things happen and we lead the way.
Value Foundations
- Every discussion we have and every decision we make is in order to deliver the best experience for our customer.
- They’re the reason we’re in business and that’s why we always consider what impact our actions and decisions have on the customer.
- We support one another through the good times and the bad.
- Everyone is always approachable and invite our colleagues to collaborate with us.
- We collaborate with each other; bringing experts together to form unstoppable skillsets.
- We plan together; we deliver together; we achieve together.
Our Story
Since 1984 Beaverswood® has been involved in the design, manufacture and development of alpha-numeric labelling systems for quick and easy identification of products and locations. Beginning humbly in a small bedroom – with just one product – our self-adhesive numbers and letters.
A man with a single product (our Numbers and Letters labels, which are still a top seller to this day) and a dream – to manufacture simple visual management products that deliver BIG results!
We become certified to ISO 9001, highlighting our commitment to continuous improvement, and providing products that meet and exceed customer expectations
Manutan, a European leader in B2B e-commerce, becomes a major reseller of our products. It’s the start of a strong partnership that continues to this day!
We acquire our first premises in Unit 8, Toutley Road, Wokingham
We reach an EPIC milestone by reaching £1 million sales in ONE year!
Due to continued growth and the need for more storage space, we acquire Units 9-10, Toutley Road
Our busy beavers continue to support our clients across the pond, bringing our total sales to Europe up to 50%
Beaverswood® goes digital, launching a new website and recording our first online sale
We launch the original waste segregation solution for the workplace – racksack®, making the organisation of waste materials a breeze
Fresh off the success of racksack®, our innovative team bring frames4docs® to market, providing a colourful and easy way to display information
We reach our 30th birthday, giving us a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw on in the years ahead
We expand our premises again, acquiring Unit 14, Toutley Road, which gives us 11,000 square feet of office and storage space in total
Rodney Bevis retires, with Jeroen van den Berge and Tim Lacey taking up the reigns as new owners of Beaverswood®
We take away the need (and headache!) for custom shadow boards by creating a genius range of standard boards that are widely used across the workplace
Our beloved beaver mascot, Chipper, gets a facelift and a new lick of paint as part of our new and improved logo
Beaverswood® is acquired by IWS Group, a growing network of manufacturers and service providers of the world’s industrial sectors
A new beaver takes the helm as we welcome Stephanie Gentle as Managing Director
Beaverswood® relocates to Goldoak House in Wokingham in order to upgrade operations and provide even better service
Meet the Beaverswood Team
As Aristotle himself once said - "Enjoying your work leads to perfection".
So, it's handy we've got a great team of people who all love what they do! And with a combined 100+ years of experience, you could say delivering visual management solutions is in our DNA.
We're Certified
At Beaverswood®, we believe that strong industry connections, rigorous standards, and awards are essential to providing the best for our customers.
Our memberships and accreditations with respected organisations such as the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA), the BOSS Federation, and the British Standards Institution (BSI), along with our ISO 9001 certification, underscore our commitment to quality, reliability, and continuous improvement. These affiliations reflect our dedication to upholding high standards and staying at the forefront of innovation within our industry.
IWS Group of Brands
Meet Beaverswood
We make the workplace work smarter with our range of visual management products, suitable for lean manufacturing and 5S - or any workplace that needs to be safe, productive, and in order.
The beauty of our products is their quality and simplicity - simple to install, simple to use, and simple to sell (if you're a reseller!) - enabling optimal performance.
Meet Rack Group
Rack Group is the UK's leading provider of warehouse racking solutions that focus on prolonging the life and safety of racking.
Throughout their forty years in business, they've been providing time and cost-saving racking services to many of the biggest household names across the UK. They've built a market-leading reputation for being fast and responsive while ensuring their customers remain safe, operational, and compliant.
Meet Brandsafe
Europe’s leading provider of high visibility impact protection and safety solutions for the industrial workplace. Brandsafe is setting new safety standards across industrial buildings worldwide, such as warehouses, manufacturing sites and logistics hubs.
Brandsafe is continuously developing an innovative range of traffic safety and management and pedestrian safety solutions, designed to sustainably prevent and protect people, products and property from impact damage.
Meet Anco
Exclusively through its trade-only distribution channel, Anco offers an extensive range of over 7,000 variations of products, covering all kinds of applications from industrial racking, multi-tier projects and mezzanine flooring, to office archive storage and modular shelving.
Anco stores over £3M worth of stock in their warehouse to facilitate quick turn-around times on orders.