Bisley is a British manufacturer of office storage furniture and storage systems, founded in 1931 by Freddy Brown — as a one-man car body repair business for luxury automobiles in St John's, Woking (Surrey). The company relocated to the village of Bisley (Surrey), from which it took its name. During the Second World War Bisley produced parachute drop containers for Allied airborne forces and received several commendations from the Ministry of Defence. In 1945 Freddy Brown won a contract for a steel wastepaper bin from a London wholesaler — the beginning of office product manufacturing. The most iconic product: the MultiDrawer, designed by Freddy Brown and inspired by letter trays — over two million sold since its introduction, awarded the Design Guild Mark by the Furniture Makers' Company in 2018. Freddy Brown's son Tony Brown joined the company in 1960 and bought it outright from his father in 1976; Tony received an OBE for his contribution to the British steel industry. In 1988 Bisley acquired a 17-acre site in Newport (South Wales), which today is the company's sole main production facility.
Current product range: steel storage (pedestals, side filers, filing cabinets, lockers, tambour cupboards), modular wood systems (BOB — designed by Paul Kelley, 2019, Design Guild Mark 2019, Mixology 2019 Storage Product of the Year), desk accessories, height-adjustable desks, seating solutions, smart locker systems (BeSmart). Queen's Award for Export Achievement: 1992 and 1997. Manufacturing Guild Mark from the Furniture Makers' Company: 2015. Partnership with John Lewis (since 2022) and Next (since 2024). Presence in over 50 countries.
For architects and workplace designers, Bisley is the most reliable British specialist for office storage — with a history spanning car body repair, wartime production and the most iconic steel storage system in the UK, and a product range extending from the individual cabinet to smart, networked locker systems.