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Coppins sea anchor
Our story angle on this one: “Your product saved our lives.”
It’s the kind of story the good folk at Coppins hear regularly. Still, they haven’t lost the emotion of it at all. When Lesley and I made a pilgrimage of thanks to Coppins, we were greeted with hugs and misty eyes. This is a business with heart. And one based on many years of brave innovation.
It all started in 1898 when William Arthur Coppins, whose parents owned the Motueka Hotel, was forced to go out and work at age 10 when his mum died. He took up an apprenticeship at a saddlery. Which, over time, turned into the horse tack emporium in the main street. When his son Leo took over the business, he also started supplying canvas products to local shipping – mostly tarpaulins to protect deck cargo and
