Rutland Business Network June

About Chris

With a family history in Textiles, it probably was destiny that I ended up working across different businesses with textiles at their heart. I started my working life in 1992 with Osborne and Little in London heading up the Contracts division before moving to Relyon Beds in Somerset in 1997 where I held a number of roles ultimately becoming Managing Director for my last three years. In 2012 I set off on a different course with a desire to get closer to the consumer and joined a fledgling business called Woolroom, the leading specialist in Wool Bedding, as Managing Director and minority shareholder and have developed this business into the leading natural sleep specialist in the UK with all products targeted at the sleep environment.

In 2018 Woolroom launched its North American website and over the next three years grew the business significantly warranting the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary and the development of distribution facilities in the US. This level of growth resulted in being awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise for International Trade in 2021. The business has continued to grow its international business with wool all sourced and traceable back to British Farms and the US is now the largest part of the business with two Distribution hubs. I am pleased to also announce the launch of Woolroom Canada on August 7th with a new distribution hub in Ottawa.

My passion across the business is to utilise British Wool from British farms where feasible and to educate and change the way people sleep across the world.