Cuckmere Trug Company, makers of the genuine Sussex Trug baskets, have appointed their first three sales agents in South East.

John Self (above left) will represent the company in East Anglia, Essex, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire as far north as Lincoln.

Roger Parsons (above right) will cover Dorset, Hampshire, west of the M3 corridor and Wiltshire.

Cuckmere will be looking to appoint an agent for Kent, Sussex, Surrey, South London and Hampshire east of the M3 corridor.

In order to improve customer service and relationship the company are in the process of engaging sales agents throughout the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.

Cuckmere Trugs make the original Royal Sussex Traditional Garden Trugs as invented by Thomas Smith in 1829 and the South Down Contemporary Trug in their own workshops in rural Sussex within the South Downs National Park.