The Allsop family has been building consumer product companies and
products since 1965 when the founder, Ivor "Buss" Allsop invented
the Ski-Boot In. Two of Ivor's children, Mike and Jim, led the
family into the consumer electronics business with the introduction
of the mechanized audio cassette deck cleaner and the development
and introduction of the first video cassette recorder "VCR" cleaner
in the 1970's. In the 1980's and 1990's the family businesses had
expanded and the company became a global company with the
establishment of Allsop Europe in WaterfordIreland.