FR Scott Expands Range and The Team

3 September 2025

FR Scott Expands with New Stapling, Collated Nails & Tooling Services

We’re proud to share some exciting news – our product range has just got even bigger.

Alongside our extensive stock of fixings, fasteners and ironmongery, FR Scott now offers staples, collated nails, and all associated tooling and servicing.

This step forward strengthens the support we can offer our customers, whether you’re in Construction, Modular Building, Joinery or Engineering. It also opens the door for us to supply new industries, including Bed, Furniture & Upholstery manufacturing.

Welcoming Stapling Experience & Expertise

What makes this expansion even more significant is the addition of several experienced colleagues who have joined us from Bradfast, following the West Yorkshire company’s recent closure.

Among them is Bradfast’s General Manager Gary Simmonds who brings not only years of knowledge & experience, but also many of his long-standing customers too.

Gary worked for Bradfast as General Manager for 14 years and prior to that Gary was with Stanley Bostitch for 6 years. During his time at Bradfast Gary was instrumental in bringing on & managing some significant manufacturing accounts, many of whom are household names. He also was responsible for delivering tooling training to both staff and customers and supporting the servicing team.

Gary joins us in a newly created role of Regional Commercial Manager.

Head of Sales and Marketing Tony Rands said

“It has always been our plan to expand our product offering as we grow the business, and the opportunity to bring in new colleagues with significant industry experience was one we simply couldn’t miss. Their knowledge, relationships, and passion for the sector will allow us to offer even greater value to our customers.”

Upon joining FR Scott Gary said,

” I’m very pleased to have joined a business that’s both well known in the fixings industry and has demonstrated positive growth in recent years. The values FR Scott have are very much similar to my own. They pride themselves on their high level of service along with the relationships they build with their customers – just like myself.”

This expertise ensures we can provide the same trusted service FR Scott is known for, while also offering more specialist advice and solutions in the staple and collated nail market.

Our range of staples and nails, like our existing ironmongery and fixing products, are available next day to businesses across the UK. Our onsite tooling and servicing is available to businesses across Yorkshire, Lancashire, North Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and the Midlands.

Building on 80 years of trust

As we prepare to celebrate our 80th anniversary in 2025, we remain true to the values that have carried us through four generations of family ownership – reliability, service, value and quality.

With over 16,000 product lines in stock at our Hull warehouse and thousands of businesses supplied every week, this expansion is another step in making sure our customers have everything they need, when they need it.

Here to support your business

Whether you’re looking for staples, collated nails, specialist tools, or servicing, our team is ready to help.

If you’d like to learn more, please get in touch with us on 01482 324731 or visit frscott.co.uk.

Our account customers can access the B2B portal to check stock, prices and place orders directly from the FR Scott homepage.

DIYers and casual fixings users can shop the FR Scott range at Fix and Fast -our online fixings brand – www.fixandfast.co.uk