Boden:

"After five burglaries, one office dog, nine Christmas quizzes, twelve nights spent in the warehouse, one consignment of refugees arriving with a clothes delivery, four office moves, quite a few sense of humour failures, a few sackings (but thankfully not many), 2 venture capitalists, 6 awards, about twenty fantastically annoying customers (mostly related to me), a couple of crooks, 520 Kings Pizza ("Continental" medium thin crust with extra anchovies for me), a great team spirit, one incredibly tolerant wife, bucket loads of sweat and even more laughs, we're still here!

- Boden was founded in 1991

- We initially launched with just 8 menswear products

- In 1994 we launched womenswear

- Childrenswear (Mini Boden) followed in 1996

- Our website launched in April 1999

- Today we employ over 600 hard working staff

- We despatch over 6,000 orders every day from our warehouse".

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