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About us
About us, Mark Bond and Rob Carter
Mark Bond the Managing Director has spent over 30 years in the Furniture Industry. In 1998 he originally decided to set up on his own with a Company called “Furniture on the Net”. The idea was to sell antiques and quality reproduction furniture over the Internet.
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Whilst restoring these antiques Mark developed a mixture that not only restored wood but also had a lovely fragrance to it. Over a period of time Customers began to ask for this concoction rather than the furniture. It was at this stage that the product “ Balds Balm” was born.
The Company Barbe & Bald Limited was then created in 2002.
Growth continued with exposure at Stately Home Exhibitions including Woburn Abbey, Knebwoth House, Goodwood House & Weston Park etc.
Website created with Sales to USA, Australia, Italy, South Africa, Germany etc.
In 2005 Lakeland Limited start to stock Bald’s Original Furniture Balm in their Mail Order Catalogue and Stores.
2006 Appointment of Robert Carter as Finance & Operations Director.
2006. Move to New Premises at Dicker Mill in Hertford.
2007. Available now at John Lewis, Home Essentials, Scotts of Stow & The Cotswold Company.
2008 Barbe & Bald launch Bald's Original Furniture Wax
Statement from the MD
Hi, I am Mark Bond and I have spent the past 30 years with fine furniture. Technology has given us all sort of short cuts in furniture care including silicones and aerosol sprays - these treatments are superficially fine but do not do much for the long term care of your cherished furniture. My research has led me to a number of traditional treatments, some originating in the Middle Ages. Using these and 21st Century technology we have isolated the best of them and incorporated them into Bald's Original Wood Balm