By 2020, TYGA was gaining real momentum. What started with a single product had grown to around 50 orders a day.

Then COVID-19 changed everything.

We adapted quickly - working from home and turning garages, spare rooms and any available space into makeshift operations so we could continue serving our customers.

During this period, we expanded into PPE and essential products, helping support key workers, local businesses and our wider community with supplies they needed to keep going.

At the same time, we continued building TYGA for the long term. Our growing range of shoe horns became one of our early successes and helped establish a footwear and accessories category that remains part of the brand today.

2020 tested us in ways we could never have anticipated, but it strengthened our work ethic, resilience and commitment to our customers.

Most importantly, we remain incredibly grateful to everyone who supported TYGA during that period. Their trust helped keep us going and gave us the foundation to continue growing.

By 2021, TYGA had outgrown the way we started. Sales had roughly doubled, our product range was growing, and we needed more space and structure to support the next stage of the business.

We moved into a larger unit with dedicated warehouse and office space - a proper base to manage stock, fulfil orders and continue developing the brand.

2021 also marked our first move beyond the UK. We expanded into European marketplaces including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic, bringing TYGA to a much wider customer base.

Towards the end of the year, we went further still, launching into the United States.

What had started only two years earlier as one product between two friends was now reaching customers across multiple countries - but our focus stayed the same: practical, good-quality products at fair prices, backed by hard work and dependable service.

After a period of rapid expansion, 2022 marked a shift toward strengthening the business behind the brand.

We continued growing our product range while improving the systems that supported it - from stock management and fulfilment to customer service and product development.

Our focus also grew more deliberate. Rather than adding products simply for the sake of growth, we concentrated on building categories where TYGA could offer something genuinely useful, dependable and competitively priced.

It was a year of putting stronger foundations in place - creating the structure needed to support the next stage of TYGA's growth.

In 2023, TYGA moved further into compression, support and healthcare-related products - an important step in developing our range.

We focused on practical products that could make a genuine difference in everyday life, while staying true to the same principles that had guided us from the start.

As the business expanded, so did our team. We were proud to create local employment opportunities and build dedicated graphics, marketing and warehouse teams, giving us the expertise to support TYGA's next chapter.

Despite the growth, we stayed just as hands-on as we'd always been - working alongside the team, still learning, still putting in the same energy as when it was just the two of us.

With a stronger team behind us, TYGA was becoming a broader everyday essentials brand - serving households, workplaces and healthcare users across an expanding range of categories.

2023 was a year where the range and the people behind it grew together.

As TYGA grew, we wanted to understand what we sold beyond specifications and samples - by seeing first-hand where and how it was made.

In 2024, we travelled to meet suppliers, visit production facilities and build stronger relationships with our manufacturing partners.

These visits gave us greater visibility over materials, standards, working practices and quality control, and let us work directly with suppliers on improvements and future development.

For us, responsible sourcing is about more than paperwork. It means knowing the people behind our products, understanding how they're made, and building long-term partnerships built on trust.

Getting closer to the source helped us make better decisions and take greater ownership of everything carrying the TYGA name.

In 2025, we returned to visit our suppliers, strengthening the relationships that help us improve product quality, consistency and future development.

At the same time, TYGA expanded further, launching into Saudi Arabia and the UAE - two significant additions alongside our existing presence in the UK, Europe and the United States.

Each new region gave us a better understanding of how customers use and value our products in different parts of the world, helping us refine how we develop and position the TYGA range.

Our ambition is simple: to keep building TYGA into a brand recognised well beyond the UK, without losing sight of where - and why - we started.

Today, TYGA is a very different business from the one that launched its first product in 2019.

In 2026, we're reaching over 500 sales a day with a wider product catalogue and customers across the UK and international markets - a long way from the 50 orders a day we were managing back in 2020.

This year also marked an important step forward for TYGA Store, as we moved to a new website designed to give customers a faster, more professional and user-friendly shopping experience. It gave us the opportunity to present the brand more clearly, make our growing range easier to shop and strengthen the direct relationship we have with our customers.

But for us, growth has never simply been about selling more. We continue to invest in better products, stronger supplier relationships, improved warehousing and fulfilment, and a better overall customer experience.

We're also expanding the team, developing new categories and strengthening the systems behind the business so we can continue serving customers well as TYGA grows.

Seven years on, the aim remains the same as it was in 2019: practical products, fair prices and genuine value for the people who buy them.

2019 was the beginning. 2026 is the next chapter.

We're proud of how far TYGA has come, but we're even more excited about where it can go next.

Our plans include developing more TYGA-designed products, improving our existing ranges, entering new categories, and continuing to build a trusted, recognisable British brand.

We'll keep exploring new international markets while investing in our UK operation, our team, warehousing, technology and the direct shopping experience through TYGA Store.

The principles behind TYGA won't change: build useful products, deliver real value, and keep improving.

We've come a long way since our first sale in 2019. The next chapter is only just beginning.