AA Inventories

A.A.Inventories was born from a chance meeting on an internet chat site between Anne Marie Shevlin, a letting agent from Hampshire and Alan Chaplin a factory production manager from Norfolk in December 2000.

It was while working as lettings manager at Bradford and Bingley that Anne first encountered Independent Inventory Clerks. After becoming redundant, Alan decided to set up his own business as a handyman, doing minor repairs and decorating mainly for local letting agents, with Anne supplying a large proportion of his work. In May 2004, Anne decided to leave the company and it was at this point that A.A.Inventories was formed.

After some time researching on the internet we decided on an inventory format. Initially we used the industry standard way of inventory production of attending the property, dictating the report and returning to type it up and print it off ready to be taken back to the property for the check in, usually the next day. We continued to pick up more work but we soon realised that using our  current system meant attending properties twice, leading us to develop our current system of producing and printing reports on site. This new method had bought about not just the obvious advantage of only needing to travel to each job once, but also proved to be a more accurate method. We found that we could cover a larger area than our local competitors.

Through extensive research and planning it has become apparent that the most effective way to exploit our opportunities is by developing a nationwide franchise network.