YOU'VE GOT OUR NUMBER
Stretching almost the distance from London to New York in Radford cutlery. Discover Robert Welch in numbers. For 70 years, we’ve been making your house a home.
That’s 25,567 days (and counting) of remarkable British design. Seven decades of creating the finest stainless-steel products - each piece crafted with care, each one made to last a lifetime.
We’ve come a long way since 1955, when our founder Robert Radford Welch set up his eponymous design studio in a historic Silk Mill in Chipping Campden. The honey-coloured walls of this 18th century building – in which we still design all our products – is home to a rich legacy of craftsmanship.
For it was here, 53 years earlier, that Arts & Crafts movement pioneer CR Ashbee relocated his Guild of Handicraft 128 miles from London to the Cotswolds – and brought 50 families with him, in search of a better quality of life.
From Robert Welch’s groundbreaking Old Hall tableware to our newest Kemble Texture Bright cutlery, our current product range now boasts 35 kitchen knives, 27 mills, 38 bathroom items (14 accessories and 24 fittings) and cookware collections - with countless design awards in between.
THE RADFORD ROLL CALL
Today, we’re a global business, headquartered in the 25,000sq ft Radford Building with more than 80 staff and hundreds of hospitality and trade partners worldwide.
From here, our award-winning designs are shipped to homes, hotels, restaurants, cruise ships and airlines in almost every country in the world.
That’s seven continents of professional chefs, passionate home cooks and foodies who continue to be part of the Robert Welch story.
So, whether you’re enjoying our products on terra firma, sailing the high seas or flying at 43,000ft, you’re in good company.
But don’t just take our word for it – an astonishing 10,335 of you have already left us a review on Trustpilot and Feefo. Thanks for being with us on this remarkable journey.
BREAD AND BUTTER
Radford was conceived by Rupert Welch and John Limbrey and took them two years to perfect. It is a monobloc evolution of Robert’s Premier cutlery pattern from 1984.
Since Radford’s launch in 2002, we’ve sold over 24 million pieces of Radford. That’s almost two every minute. And one knife, fork or spoon for each person living in Australia.
End-to-end, the Radford knives, forks and spoons (and lobster picks, oyster forks and sauce ladles etc) which have flown out of our warehouse would stretch more than 5,000km – almost the distance from London to New York.
Radford is now the largest stainless-steel cutlery range in the world with 70 covetable pieces in the collection, from a tiny butter knife to a school ruler-length carving knife.
You’ll find it in discerning homes, on the tables of Michelin-star restaurants, aboard cruise liners, luxury hotels. And in pride of place is our Studio Shop, at the heart of Chipping Campden for the past 56 years.
A MILLION REASONS TO TRUST OUR KITCHEN KNIVES
Twenty years ago, we launched our fully forged Signature Kitchen Knives.
Today there are 1,792,008 in homes and restaurants across the globe. That’s enough to stretch around 813 football pitches – nine times around every professional ground in Britain.
From the smallest 8cm Signature Paring Knife – there are 130,689 of those happily chopping vegetables globally – to 45,863 20cm Signature Cook’s Knives making light work of kitchen prep, their 15° Japanese cutting edge is made from 1.4116 German stainless-steel.
Our Signature collection currently comprises 23 different kitchen knives, 13 salt and pepper mills, 18 utensils and two sets of steak knives.
HERE’S TO THE NEXT 70 YEARS
While these numbers are big and our reach global, we still design with Robert’s legacy front and centre, still with his son Rupert and daughter Alice at the helm. Thank you for being on this remarkable journey with us. Here’s to the next chapter.
“This 70-year milestone is not only to honour our father’s design legacy, but about looking forward, continuing to create stainless steel products with the same passion and innovation that has defined Robert Welch since 1955.”
Rupert and Alice Welch
THE RADFORD ROLL CALL
Today, we’re a global business, headquartered in the 25,000sq ft Radford Building with more than 80 staff and hundreds of hospitality and trade partners worldwide.
From here, our award-winning designs are shipped to homes, hotels, restaurants, cruise ships and airlines in almost every country in the world.
That’s seven continents of professional chefs, passionate home cooks and foodies who continue to be part of the Robert Welch story.
So, whether you’re enjoying our products on terra firma, sailing the high seas or flying at 43,000ft, you’re in good company.
But don’t just take our word for it – an astonishing 10,335 of you have already left us a review on Trustpilot and Feefo. Thanks for being with us on this remarkable journey.
BREAD AND BUTTER
Radford was conceived by Rupert Welch and John Limbrey and took them two years to perfect. It is a monobloc evolution of Robert’s Premier cutlery pattern from 1984.
Since Radford’s launch in 2002, we’ve sold over 24 million pieces of Radford. That’s almost two every minute. And one knife, fork or spoon for each person living in Australia.
End-to-end, the Radford knives, forks and spoons (and lobster picks, oyster forks and sauce ladles etc) which have flown out of our warehouse would stretch more than 5,000km – almost the distance from London to New York.
Radford is now the largest stainless-steel cutlery range in the world with 70 covetable pieces in the collection, from a tiny butter knife to a school ruler-length carving knife.
You’ll find it in discerning homes, on the tables of Michelin-star restaurants, aboard cruise liners, luxury hotels. And in pride of place is our Studio Shop, at the heart of Chipping Campden for the past 56 years.
A MILLION REASONS TO TRUST OUR KITCHEN KNIVES
Twenty years ago, we launched our fully forged Signature Kitchen Knives.
Today there are 1,792,008 in homes and restaurants across the globe. That’s enough to stretch around 813 football pitches – nine times around every professional ground in Britain.
From the smallest 8cm Signature Paring Knife – there are 130,689 of those happily chopping vegetables globally – to 45,863 20cm Signature Cook’s Knives making light work of kitchen prep, their 15° Japanese cutting edge is made from 1.4116 German stainless-steel.
Our Signature collection currently comprises 23 different kitchen knives, 13 salt and pepper mills, 18 utensils and two sets of steak knives.
HERE’S TO THE NEXT 70 YEARS
While these numbers are big and our reach global, we still design with Robert’s legacy front and centre, still with his son Rupert and daughter Alice at the helm. Thank you for being on this remarkable journey with us. Here’s to the next chapter.
“This 70-year milestone is not only to honour our father’s design legacy, but about looking forward, continuing to create stainless steel products with the same passion and innovation that has defined Robert Welch since 1955.”
Rupert and Alice Welch