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The advent of computers and the internet has, if anything, increased demand for reading and storing pieces of paper, according to Tony Brown, Bisley. "People seem to like paper," he says. "They trust it more than electronic forms of information.

If paper were to disappear, Mr. Brown's company would not have much of a future. Aged 72, he is Chief Executive and owner of Bisley, one of the Europes biggest makers of filing cabinets.

Bisley last year made 900,000 filing cabinets, in 50,000 shapes and sizes!

Office filing systems are fairly low value and contain a lot of air, and therefore because of the shipping costs, it would be fairly pointless for a company in China to think about exporting products of this type to Europe.

Mr. Brown says his basic recipe for running the business has not changed over the past 30 years. "You have got to provide good quality products, offer a good service to customers and sell at acceptable prices, "he says.

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