The Allen brothers Tony and Glenn started their business with a vision of performance sailing hardware driven by innovation and technology.
The first products they produced for their own race boats were such an improvement on everything then in use, customers demanded they set up production to meet the market.
Those principles still hold true and the company has grown in the past 60 plus years to become a major exporter, selling high-performance sailing hardware to the World.
The concentration on design means tooling has to be produced in-house and the vast majority of research, design, prototyping, tooling and production still takes place at the Allen factory in Southminster, Essex, UK.
Much of the inspiration for products comes from our elite sailors, Team Allen, Members of the British and many European Sailing Teams, especially in the high-performance classes such as the 49er and Nacra 17 foiling catamaran, have long associations with the business and their feedback and knowledge are invaluable in driving the next generation of innovative sailing products.
