We have launched this special edition set of a Tokugawa Incendiary Cannon and crew to celebrate our recent move into a larger and much brighter office. The set has been made by popular demand and we therefore thought for this celebration it would be an ideal time to launch it.

To cut a long story short; we actually ran out of space in our old offices towards the later half of 2003 so we had to "bite the bullet" and move! Not the easiest job as you can imagine, as we not only had to run two premises simultaneously but also provide deliveries to our customers at the same time and throughout the busiest season of the year. Building work ,as seems regrettably the normal, didn't exactly go to plan but anyway please have a look at our before and after pictures below of the new office and, we do hope you agree the move was worthwhile!

We now believe that we have enough development space for at least the next 3 years so hopefully we can bring you more exciting figures and ranges in the future and at a faster pace. Also Cynthia Young (who a lot of you have met at various shows) has joined us on a full time basis as our China Operations Director so we feel in a very strong position to go forward. Welcome aboard Cynthia!

We do apologise to all our customers and dealers that we have not been very productive for the last 6 months but as you can see from the above; we really had to make this big leap forward in order to get the business on a firm footing before going forward. In this light we would like the personally thank you all for your tremendous support over the first 4 years of the East of India Company's business and look forward to chatting with you all in the future, whether it be on the telephone, on line via e-mail and at of course shows.