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The Best Storage Methods for Warehouses

The popularity of online commerce has created many new small businesses that require space to store their backstock of goods. It is very much a cliché, but most new small companies that start from modest beginnings will keep their bulk stock in their homes or garden sheds, pilled up in......

Christmas Opening Times & Delivery Info

On behalf of all at Alison Handling, we would like to wish all of our customers a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Closed for Christmas – 24th December 2021 at 14:30 Re-open – 4th January 2022 at 08:30...

Alison Handling New Branding Introduction

With over 30+ years of industry experience Alison Handling are continually evolving to meet ever changing customer and market needs. As the largest Independent Stockist of Reusable and Recyclable Storage Solutions operating across the UK, how we are perceived by customers and stakeholders alike is key. We offer our customers......

Small Business of the Year 2020

Alison Handling has been named Small Business of the Year at the Business Masters Awards 2020. The Business Masters Awards is an annual event designed to celebrate business innovation and achievement across the North West. The awards were marked with a ceremony at the Hilton Deansgate hotel, Manchester on 5th March......

Venturefest Innovation Winners 2019

https://youtu.be/6C5ElkgbO3E Alison Handling Launches New A-Link Dolly We are delighted to introduce our innovative new product –the A-Link Dolly. Designed to reduce the requirement for cage trolleys and less efficient storage systems, our A-Link Dolly features a specialist design that has spent over a year in development. Alison Handling worked......

Venturefest Finalists 2019!!

ALISON HANDLING REACH FINALS OF THE VENTUREFEST NORTH WEST INNOVATION SHOWCASE Lancashire-based Alison Handling has reached the finals of this year’s Venturefest North West Innovation Showcase competition. The Innovation showcase targets small to medium-sized businesses who have launched a new product, service or digital innovation in four categories.  Alison Handling......

New Product Launch!!

The new A-Link Dolly is a rack to shelf solution, cutting the need for cage trolleys, and inefficient storage systems. It will potentially cut staff handling times between the warehouse and the store by approx. 46%. Glenn Broomfield, managing director of Alison Handling said: “Up until now there hasn’t been......

MP Mark Menzies visit

Alison Handling played host to MP Mark Menzies who heard how the company has grown from a four-person operation to Europe’s largest independent supplier of plastic boxes. The MP for Fylde visited the Kirkham company, currently 30 years in business, to learn of its recent domestic and international successes. Mr......

Alison unveils new UK made bread basket dolly

Alison’s new bread basket dolly is just one example of how the company is giving UK bakers greater flexibility and responsiveness in the way they order their packaging products. Alison Handling Services (AHS), Europe’s largest stockist of plastic containers and boxes, has introduced a new bread basket dolly designed for......

5 ways to work well with family members

For many people, the idea of working with family members has a negative stigma. They imagine scenes of siblings squabbling in meetings and partners bickering at the water cooler. But these needn’t be the case! Alison Dearden, who has worked alongside her parents at Alison Handling for over 25 years......