West Lancs Paint & Varnish

WLPV is a family run business that started in 1997 as a small paint manufacturer, located in a rented farm building in Rufford Lancashire. We started with one floor mounted mixing machine, that one of the brothers made from a second hand motor and some scrap metal donated by our farmer landlord. Manufacturing woodcare products, we filled them off into plain white buckets with a simple brown label advertising Brown Shed & Fence Treatment which we sold to local farmers and market traders. Soon after we got a little creative and added 3 more colours to our range. The two eldest brothers used to make the products and then deliver the next day, the two younger brothers used to help out after school filling off the paint and labeling the buckets. As soon as the younger brothers finished school they joined the business.