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James Avis, Packaging Company based in Surrey
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James and Alan Avis, who are the current owners and working directors of James Avis Packaging, represent a fifth generation who have controlled the company, which was originally founded in the Southwark. district of South London in 1865.
The business was founded by their great great grandfather, John Avis of Hugenot descent. John was originally a corset maker by trade. Times were hard and John was out of work. He walked from London to Portsmouth where he found employment with a firm of corset makers. The whalebone required in corset making, which was shipped into Portsmouth, needed to be stored in boxes, and John, a resourceful character, turned his hand to making cardboard boxes.
John's wife joined him in his work, but later the couple returned to London, where she was to gain employment in John Smith's Cracker Factory. Here, once again. John turned his hand to box making, soon making the bold decision to branch out on his own, readily finding customers among the myriad large and small businesses thriving in the Metropolis which was the centre of the British Empire.
