Evo Supplies News

Where to Find Boxes for Moving

Where to Find Boxes for Moving

It is a well-known truth that moving home is one of the most stressful things you will undertake in life. There’s a lot of work involved at many levels – and even once the time approaches to finally sort your belongings ready for the move, the prospect of packing up a...

Evo Skates – The Ultimate Weightlifters

Evo Skates – The Ultimate Weightlifters

As well as providing reliable and hard-working equipment to removals teams all over the country, our skates and dollies are excellent for use in the home and workplace; from offices, to schools, to warehouses and more. Even for occasional moves, having your own Evo...

How to Move a Heavy Wardrobe

How to Move a Heavy Wardrobe

Your moving day has come. The contracts have been signed and everything is packed and ready to go. But what do you do about the elephant – or rather the wardrobe – in the room? Moving a heavy wardrobe is not in the same league as lifting a few packed boxes of...

Our 2023 Festive Opening Hours

Our 2023 Festive Opening Hours

With a busy year for the Evo Supplies team drawing to a close, in the run-up to the festive period, we’re continuing to work hard fulfilling your orders, before we ‘down tools’ for a well-deserved break over the Christmas period. If you’re looking for moving equipment...

How to Pack Clothes for Moving

How to Pack Clothes for Moving

The contract has been signed and your new home awaits you. Now comes the difficult business of packing in readiness for the move. Where do you start with packing your clothes for moving? As with many life events, the secret to success is in the preparation, so here’s...

Evo Supplies Returns to the Movers & Storers Show

Evo Supplies Returns to the Movers & Storers Show

We’re pleased to announce that after a break of 4 years, Evo Supplies is heading back to The Movers & Storers Show for 2023. We’ll be exhibiting at the NAEC Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, on 21st-22nd November at the UK’s biggest removals and storage trade show. Read...

How to Pack a TV for Moving

How to Pack a TV for Moving

Amid the chaos of upping sticks and moving home, one key issue that crops up is how to ensure the TV makes it safely to your new home. After months of stressful house hunting and navigating complex legal matters, when moving day comes, it is not without its...

Moving Office Checklist

Moving Office Checklist

It’s time for a change of office but moving a business can potentially be disruptive. However, having a moving office checklist will ensure the whole process goes as smoothly as possible. A new office will offer new opportunities, but it can also bring a number of...

New Product from Evo Supplies

New Product from Evo Supplies

As a business we’re always looking to evolve to continue to meet our customers’ needs. To provide that high level of service we’re known for, it’s important to listen to our clients to ensure our offering suits their requirements – which occasionally includes...

Moving Equipment You Can Trust

Moving Equipment You Can Trust

The removals trade is a competitive business with thousands of suppliers across the UK all vying to be the most trusted and go-to firm in their region. An awful lot of trust has to be put in the hands of a removal team and it’s vital for clients to know they are in...

Evo Supplies launches new Board Trolley range

Evo Supplies launches new Board Trolley range

As the UK’s industry-leading removals equipment, furniture moving equipment and skates and dollies manufacturer, with years of experience in the sector, Evo Supplies is constantly at the cutting edge of new innovations. And when a customer comes to us with a request...

ISO 9001:2015 Re-accreditation

ISO 9001:2015 Re-accreditation

At Evo Supplies, we’re all about quality, quality, quality. We strive for the highest standards at every level of our business, from the smallest components on each of our products, to our UK-made range of skates and trolleys themselves, to our customer service, to...

Evo Supplies’ 2022 Festive Opening Hours

Evo Supplies’ 2022 Festive Opening Hours

It’s set to be a busy final month of the year for the Evo team and we’re here at our Mersea Island HQ to fulfil your orders and assist with queries in the lead up to the festive season. For now, we’re still focused more on ‘the dolly and the ivy’ than ‘a holly jolly...

Big News from Evo Supplies

Big News from Evo Supplies

We are delighted to announce a new addition to the Evo Supplies range of removals equipment: welded aluminium piano trolleys. Earlier this year, Evo Supplies acquired from Alan Stuart Engineering Ltd of Salford the manufacturing rights and production machinery to make...

Evo’s Summer Sale

Evo’s Summer Sale

It’s been a busy year so far and this summer will be no exception! Our warehouse is well stocked with a wealth of skates, in a range of shapes, sizes, and specifications, that are ready to go; with fast despatch and next-working-day delivery on many items, the team...

New Product: Evo Interconnecting Plastic Dollies

New Product: Evo Interconnecting Plastic Dollies

Introducing the Interconnecting Plastic Dollies (Set of 2), 600 x 400mm – the latest addition to our popular Hello Dollies range. When it comes to moving projects of any kind, you need to have equipment that is up to the task, whatever that may be. And that’s why...

Celebrating the Best of British at Evo Supplies

Celebrating the Best of British at Evo Supplies

Along with many across the nation, we’re delighted to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee later this month; a great achievement to mark with the royals and a fitting chance to get together and raise a glass after a few difficult years for all of us. As a...

Evo Skates – Your New Best Self-Storage Friends

Evo Skates – Your New Best Self-Storage Friends

Evo skates are truly versatile. We know only too well that moving house or workplace is no easy task – and no one project is like the next. That’s why removals companies across the country turn to Evo Supplies for moving dollies to help them safely and efficiently...

Hello Dollies Are Back For 2022

Hello Dollies Are Back For 2022

Welcome back for a brand-new year… the Evo team have really hit the ground rolling straight away – and we’re kicking off 2022 with fresh, new stock of the ever-popular Hello Dollies. A fantastic choice, especially if you’re looking for an budget-friendly option – that...

Rolling Out Our Christmas Hours

Rolling Out Our Christmas Hours

Once again, we’re skating straight into the festive season; yes, Christmas is fast approaching. The Evo team are looking forward to a well-deserved rest over the Christmas break, so it’s time to ‘come all ye skate-ful’ – please check out our opening hours for the end...

How To Move Heavy Furniture

How To Move Heavy Furniture

Every one of our skates is built with a range of removals tasks in mind. Whether you’re planning on moving house (or office) or need to shift some items around in the home, when your thoughts turn to how to move heavy furniture, Evo Supplies is the right place to...

So Proud to be ISO Re-Accredited

So Proud to be ISO Re-Accredited

One thing we pride ourselves on at Evo Supplies is our quality and efficient working practices – a large part of what allows us to continually improve our services and what keeps our customers happy and coming back to us again and again. That’s why we strive to work...

An Extra Helping Hand – Handled Dollies

An Extra Helping Hand – Handled Dollies

New to our Hello Dollies range, this handled dolly is perfect for those scenarios around the home and workplace that could benefit from a dolly you can pull – making the task easier to handle, too! Perhaps you’re digging out the garden furniture for the summer season,...

Skate to the top – award winners

Skate to the top – award winners

We have some great news! Evo Supplies have been awarded ‘Best Furniture Moving Equipment Supplier’ at the UK Transport Awards 2021. As the UK’s leading manufacturer of skates and dollies, we are proud that our products are used by the top removal firms up and down the...

Introducing… Our Larger Skates

Introducing… Our Larger Skates

At Evo Supplies, we’re constantly thinking about ways we can innovate and develop to better meet our customers’ removal needs with skates and dollies of the high quality for which we are known. Ensuring that you have the right skate for the task at hand is always a...

Evo Supplies Joins Carpet Recycling UK

Evo Supplies Joins Carpet Recycling UK

We’re delighted to announce that Evo Supplies is now a member of Carpet Recycling UK – a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to reducing the amount of carpet waste being sent to landfill. Thousands of tonnes of carpet, carpet tile and textile flooring waste are...

The Removal Equipment You Need for Your Move

The Removal Equipment You Need for Your Move

With the property market booming in the light of the stamp duty holiday, and businesses rethinking their office requirements due to the pandemic, there are a lot of people moving around. If you are struggling to get a removal company booked in, then you may be...

New Year, New Products

New Year, New Products

Having rung in the new year, here at Evo Supplies we are looking to the future and what we hope will be a prosperous 2021 for everyone. With this in mind, we’re pleased to reveal some of our newest products – as well as the return of some of our old favourites....

Rolling in the Changes with our New Website

Rolling in the Changes with our New Website

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to update the Evo Supplies website and are delighted to have set it live this week! It boasts a lot of new features to make your customer journey more enjoyable than ever and brings our digital experience firmly in line with...

Trumpet blowing!

Trumpet blowing!

Toot toot! Our recent annual management system surveillance audit report by NQA recommended Evo's continued ISO 9001:2015 certification, with this glowing report in the Executive Summary.

Hello Dollies are back in town!

Hello Dollies are back in town!

Following their runaway success last year - Hello Dollies are now back in stock and ready for immediate despatch! Hello Dollies budget-priced furniture moving products are manufactured by our partner factory in China, applying Evo's own trusted...

10 reasons we love the Movers & Storers Show

10 reasons we love the Movers & Storers Show

The Movers & Storers Show is an essential annual diary date for anyone in the removals, storage, self-storage and related industries. We had a fantastic time at the 2018 show, and are already looking forward to next year's. Here's why:

The Movers & Storers Show 2018

The Movers & Storers Show 2018

What a fantastic Movers & Storers Show we enjoyed this year! The show offers an unrivalled annual opportunity to meet up with hundreds of removals and storage professionals - not just from the UK but from Ireland, Europe and even farther afield.  

Evo Supplies achieves ISO 9001:2015 certification

Evo Supplies achieves ISO 9001:2015 certification

Evo Supplies are very proud to announce that we have received ISO 9001:2015 certification. Team Evo were delighted to be formally presented with their certificate today by NQA Auditor Martin Graham

“The Skate People” – The Mover magazine, June 2018

“The Skate People” – The Mover magazine, June 2018

We were delighted to welcome David Jordan, Deputy Editor of The Mover magazine, to our factory and warehouse in West Mersea a few weeks ago. Here's what he wrote after spending a morning with the Evo team: Deputy Editor David Jordan takes a trip to Mersea Island...

“We love them”: one bespoke skate – two happy customers!

“We love them”: one bespoke skate – two happy customers!

Like most small business, we love receiving positive feedback from our customers. In this case, from Matt of the wonderfully named MoveitClearitFinditStoreit in Ipswich. Strong brand identity, a big social conscience and a passionate commitment to local customers...

Bernard Jenkin MP visits Evo Supplies

Bernard Jenkin MP visits Evo Supplies

We were pleased to welcome our local MP, Bernard Jenkin MP, to the Evo Supplies workshops last week. Some of the local and national issues discussed included: Creating sustainable employment on Mersea Island. The disastrous impact the current culture of late payment...

Evo goes to Number 10! #SmallBiz100

Evo goes to Number 10! #SmallBiz100

On 30 November, Evo's MD, Juliet Dunn, went to No. 10 Downing Street, to take part in a reception celebrating this year's Top 100 UK Small Businesses. The event was organised by Small Business Saturday, the nationwide campaign that supports, inspires and promotes the...

“Best Practice Representatives”

“Best Practice Representatives”

Following Evo's inclusion in this year's Parliamentary Review (manufacturing edition), we were delighted to receive our 'Best Practice Representative' badge last week from the Chairman of the Review, Sir Eric Pickles. Read Evo's Parliamentary Review story here.

Evo at the Movers & Storers Show, 8/9 November 2017

Evo at the Movers & Storers Show, 8/9 November 2017

The Movers & Storers Show 2017 was, as ever, such a fantastic opportunity to meet and talk with people in the removals and storage industries. Chatting with visitors gives us really interesting insights into exactly how moving...

We’re “Member of the Week” at Enterprise Nation!

We’re “Member of the Week” at Enterprise Nation!

Evo Supplies are very pleased to be members of Enterprise Nation. Since launching in 2005, Enterprise Nation has helped thousands of people start and grow their own successful business. They are the UK's most active small business community and offer a voice to...

Evo Supplies featured in this year’s Parliamentary Review

Evo Supplies featured in this year’s Parliamentary Review

On 18th September 2017, Evo’s co-owners and directors, Juliet and Greg Dunn, will be attending a Gala Evening at the Palace of Westminster, to mark the publication of this year’s Parliamentary Review – a prestigious annual document showcasing excellence and best...

15 September: Evo’s Big #SmallBiz100 Day!

15 September: Evo’s Big #SmallBiz100 Day!

Today's Evo's big social media day as one of the Small Business Saturday Top 100 #SmallBiz100. We'll be on Twitter and Facebook for most of the day, talking about what we make and where we make it, and we're also planning to share lots of posts about some of our...

Evo Skates: Made in Britain!

Evo Skates: Made in Britain!

Evo is a proud member of Made in Britain. Amongst many other benefits, this means we're licensed to use the official Made in Britain marque on all the skates we manufacture in our Mersea Island factory. Regular customers will have noticed the Made...