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The company is Registered in England & Wales Reg. No. 05685938 VAT Number 887263772 and was founded by Gerad Fitzalbert Barclay who still owns 100% of the Shares.
Background to the company is Gerad Barclay left Corporate World in 2005 after a successful career with FTSE 100 Companies in London. He then joined a much smaller company and was instrumental in building the sales and profits to a level where the company floated on the London Stock Exchange. He left that firm to escape Boardroom Politics and fulfil a lifetime ambition to run his own business.
After Buying the Freehold of a Grade 11 Listed building in Ipswich and establishing it as a top grade Business Centre, Gerad passed the day to day management over to Equity Incentivised managers who still run that business today.
Gerad Barclay spent the final months of 2006 looking at Internet based businesses for sale. Online Retailing was very immature in 2006 and some traders were new to the world of selling and customer service. Barclay thought he could not only add professionalism but presciently decided the future of eCommerce was huge.
On Friday 5th January 2007 Barclay received notification of a Baby products Online retailer that had just come on the market that day. He made immediate contact, met the sellers the following day and completed legalities for ownership on Saturday 13th January – just 7 days later. That site was BabySecurity and forms the backbone of the EDPA Limited Company to this day.
In June 2007 Gerad Barclay relocated the business to its current location taking a short term lease on a 1600 Sq Ft warehouse on the King Street Industrial Estate, becoming their first “white collar” Tenant. The Landlords were also building new Hi-Specification units on the estate and whilst the business was still in early development stage he contracted to take a 6 years’ lease on a large new build unit which was fitted to his specification.
In February 2008 Barclay felt confident about the outlook for the company EDPA Limited and also decided he needed to connect more with the products his company sold. Having never had children he was not au fait with the products and the BabySecurity site was very safety products focused. Gerad Barclay having a keen interest in technology made the bold bid for what was at that time the UK’s largest Baby Monitor website. He acquired the business of BabyMonitorsDirect.co.uk on 4th March 2008. Further acquisitions added to the range of products on offer and the further warehousing and office space was added in 2012 then 2014 taking the total to 10,000sq.ft
EDPA Limited was established in 2006 with a mission to offer parents the very best in baby and child safety products.
EDPA Limited is registered in England and Wales, Reg. No. 5685938. VAT No. 887 263772.
with a mission to offer the very best online retailing experience.
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