The Flightcase Warehouse began 30 years ago when Steve Austin (the Director & Creator of the company) was selling telecoms systems, which to his own admission “he was really rubbish at”.
He was travelling around with the phones in cardboard boxes, when he came up with a bespoke bag to carry them all in. This bag did so well that Steve resigned and started making bags which then turned into the first Flightcase for telecoms.
View our productsDue to the interest in the telecoms display case, Steve built the first order of 30, by hand and it’s a bit of a running joke within the company, just how bad they were.
The turning point came when Steve got a call back in the very early 90s from a member of UB40’s crew, who asked for some touring cases. Flightcase Warehouse was also the first company ever to build a monitor wall cinema flightcase for F1 for the Williams team back in ‘91-‘92. Since then the company has grown from strength to strength, moving from a 250sq ft rented, shared factory space in Birmingham to the current office, workshop and warehouse unit which is 60,000sq ft space, in Tamworth.
Each move gave the company more space to grow and grow it did, holding on to Family Values that were there at the start, has always been important to Steve and the team, they still run deep through every member of staff within the company from the directors, to office staff, to design, to the assemble team, to warehouse and despatch.
