15/05/2014

Part 1 of this blog can be found here And how we became… Ogden Fulfilment? Diversification As part of a regular review of the financial and operational “strengths and weaknesses”,  we as a firm realised that the gross margin as a manufacturing business here in the Western world was being affected by the existence of cheaper labour economies elsewhere. We also realised that we could evolve to …

13/05/2014

The History of Ogden Fibres Five Generations Founded in the 1870’s as a wool trading company, Ogden Fibres Ltd based at Becks Mill, in Becks Road, Keighley became a synthetic fibre trader and manufacturer in the 1950’s, and now supplies nylon tops, tow and staple throughout the world. A joint venture in 1980 in Canada added the re-extrusion of nylon for polyamide compounding markets. Today, Ogden Fibres …

11/03/2014

Welcome to the brand new (and my first) blog for Ogden Fulfilment. Over the next few weeks I will write about the history of Ogden’s, to give you a little insight into the background of this much loved and historic company.  But first I will be writing about why we do what we do so well. Order fulfilment is becoming more and more important, especially with the …