PPS East, a UK supplier of returnable boxes, is celebrating its 25th birthday.

Founded in 1987, the group started as the TFA Box Company cleaning fish boxes by hand.

TFA Box Company was initially set up by the Icelandic fish selling agency, Fylkir.

"At the time it was known that fish box hire prices had doubled in price, so the directors of Fylkir put their heads together and decided to buy their own box supply to use for Icelandic fish landings on the Grimsby auction," PPS East said.

"This