Stannah is a British family company for lifts, stairlifts and mobility solutions. It was founded in 1867 by Joseph Stannah in London — initially as a manufacturer of cranes and hoists for harbour cargo on Southwark Bridge Road. Headquarters and factory: Andover, Hampshire; second factory: Newburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Company registration (Stannah Lifts Holdings Ltd): March 1961; Stannah Stairlifts Ltd incorporated: November 1978. Wartime history: the factory was destroyed by a bomb in World War Two; Leslie Stannah rebuilt the company with his £300 compensation payment. 1975: Brian and Alan Stannah developed the first stairlift (after acquiring designs from Dutch company Jan Harmer). 1975: first production (66 units); from 1979: exports to Germany (exclusive distributor: Lifta). Today: 5th and 6th generation of the Stannah family, 100% family-owned.

Milestones: over 1,000,000 stairlifts manufactured worldwide (global market leader); 30,000+ lifts installed in the UK over the past 25 years. Exports to 40+ countries; 9 wholly-owned subsidiaries and 30+ distributors. Range: stairlifts (Stannah Stairlifts Ltd: straight, curved and external), passenger lifts (Maxilift, Xtralift), platform lifts (Midlift), goods lifts, escalators and moving walkways; maintenance and modernisation of all manufacturers' products. Sole UK distributor of Daldoss Microlifts (since the famous wastepaper bin moment: a discarded letter from Daldoss was retrieved by Alan Stannah and initiated a decades-long partnership).

Stannah is for architects, developers and facility managers the British reference manufacturer for barrier-free vertical mobility in private and commercial buildings — since 1867, as the only company with over one million stairlifts manufactured worldwide and with a full range from stairlift installation to moving walkway maintenance in over 40 countries.