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Our continued mission to innovate and improve our products means we are delighted to show off the new design of our Roller Kits! By streamlining our manufacturing, we have been able to update our existing Roller Kit product and develop an improved version that is easier to fit and higher quality. It simply clips over and clamps on to the...

To celebrate our 40th Anniversary this month, take a look at our infographic for a snapshot on the key moments in the history of Van Guard.

It’s our 40th Birthday this month! 1976… it is a long time ago now, but it was the year that GK Land Engineering Co Ltd formed and set-up business at Fair Oak Close on the Exeter Airport Business Park and 40 years later we are still there! The name may have changed along the way to Van Guard Accessories, but...

It has been just over a week now since we took home the Innovation of the Year and Business of the Year awards at the 2016 Express & Echo Business Awards, but the buzz around Van Guard HQ is still buzzing. Unfortunately, only a few of us could actually attend on the night, but we would not have been in...

US! We are delighted and very proud to announce that on the evening of Friday 8th April we won not only the Innovation of the Year award at the 2016 Express & Echo Business Awards, but also came runner-up in the Small Business of the Year category as well. With two awards to our name we thought our night could...

Here at Van Guard we not only take our manufacturing standards seriously, but also the systems that are in place to ensure we provide our customers and distributors with market leading products such as the ULTI Bar, ULTI Rack and Tool Store. With this in mind, we are delighted to announce that the work that goes on behind the scenes...

Looking for Van Guard Fitting Instructions? Click here   The ULTI Rack's CLICK & LOCK mechanism is easy to install, extremely safe and highly effective. If you have purchased our revolutionary new ULTI Rack system then firstly, thank you! Secondly and more importantly we imagine that you will be keen to know how to install it correctly? That is where...

With the online environment constantly evolving, our site needed to as well, so this is what we did and we are delighted to announce that www.van-guard.co.uk has now evolved into a bigger, better and easier to use site!

2015 – What a year it’s been! From our continued improvements in utilising the laser cutting machine to the launch of our brand new ULTI Rack van roof rack, 2015 has been quite the year for us. In this blog we reflect on what has made this a standout year for Van Guard.

Written by Andy Woodward Just after joining Van Guard I recall one of our biggest distributors, having just met me and heard about my hopes and ambitions for the company, ask me my age. When I told him, he looked me in the eyes and asked if I had the energy and motivation to do this job!!! I thought I...