An increase in the number of major new clients necessitated a move to a larger factory in Dalston where Kesslers became established as one of the leading UK manufacturers of display and manufacturing material. Clients included Sellotape, Mary Quant, Biba and...
In the early 1950s, links with pre-war customers, including Max Factor, were revived and new ones forged. The Parker Pen Company and Dunlop Tyres commissioned Kesslers to make display stands.
Aged 11, Willie Kessler, Leopold’s son, started work as a Saturday boy, and was allowed to carefully polish and wrap the wooden displays his father had designed for the quintessential brand Atkinson perfumes. At 15, Willie joined the family business full time,...
When war broke out in 1939, the Kesslers company devoted its production to the war effort in a collaboration with Polish inventor, Josef Stanislav Kozacki, whose Mine Detector 2 was the world’s first electronic detector and a breakthrough in anti-personnel mine...
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