About Me

I'm British, and I've followed an entrepreneurial path now for more than 20 years.

A graduate BSc Chemical Engineer from a British university, I started my career in 1981 at a Bradford metal container manufacturer called Sheibarg Manufacturing.

At 29 years of age I led a management buy out of the company. Within 18 months Sheibarg became the largest independent manufacturer of Lever lid containers, and the second largest manufacturer of lever lid metal containers in the UK.

A few years later I sold my shares in Sheibarg and started a new company Barplas Limited in 1994, making plastic containers.

In the years that followed there were other successful company start ups, and projects, essentially I was always driven to try things out because of an insatiable thirst for knowledge and my love for technological innovation and design. I gave talks on product design and innovation, and for a time worked along side notable designers such as Nick Butler OBE, chairman, BIB Design Consultants Ltd.

In 1999 Nick Butler OBE was my sponsor and I became a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Something which I feel was a tremendous privilege .

By 2000 Barplas had become the second largest manufacturer of plastic cylindrical lever lid containers in the UK, and was subsequently sold in 2006.

Brian Barghout BSc FRSA