Welcome to Ashby Bears
Huge Stocks available: Yes, our warehouse here at Ashby Bears HQ in Leicestershire, is stocked with hundreds of bears and animals, all ready to go to a new home. We pick them and pack them personally, to ensure that everything goes smoothly with your purchase and never use outside companies to process our orders.
Delivery: We use DHL Express who arrive here at 3pm every week day to collect our parcels.
Telephone Ordering: Sorry if the phones are not always switched on. We are only a small team, but passionate about what we do, however, feel free to drop us an email and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
International Customers: VAT is no longer charged on International orders, so any taxes, duties and handling fees are payable in your own country.
Discount Codes: We do not offer discount codes, so if any other company offers you a discount code to use at Ashby Bears, it is a scam!
Showroom Update: Since the pandemic, we are restructuring our premises, so the showroom will remain closed until further notice, however, click and collect is available from our front reception.Take Care All,David & Angela and all the team.
About Us
Launched in 2001, Ashby Bears are one of the UK's leading teddy bear specialists.
Back in 2005, we were honored to have been selected by Steiff to be a Steiff Gold Button dealer, which is the highest status that can be achieved by the famous German company.
We specialise in traditional style bears and animals from the leading manufacturers in the UK and Europe.
Since the pandemic, we are restructuring our premises, so the showroom will remain closed until further notice, however, click and collect is available from our front reception.
Back in 2005, we were honored to have been selected by Steiff to be a Steiff Gold Button dealer, which is the highest status that can be achieved by the famous German company.
We specialise in traditional style bears and animals from the leading manufacturers in the UK and Europe.
Since the pandemic, we are restructuring our premises, so the showroom will remain closed until further notice, however, click and collect is available from our front reception.
Our relocation in 2014
With our mail order sales as busy as ever, we were running out of room at our Ashby store, so in late 2014, we moved to our new Teddy Headquarters, just outside Ashby de la Zouch, between Ravenstone and Coalville, which is about five miles away from our old store.
We now have a much better facility to handle our online orders, so that our bears are packaged as safely as possible, to begin their journey to their new owner.
Our Bears, animals and collectibles, are dispatched daily throughout the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
We now have a much better facility to handle our online orders, so that our bears are packaged as safely as possible, to begin their journey to their new owner.
Our Bears, animals and collectibles, are dispatched daily throughout the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Sewn by hand from the softest materials available, this fashion-forward line of products by Steiff, is of the absolute highest quality. Doesn’t your baby deserve the very best?
We are also proud to offer the incredible range of Teddy Hermann bears and miniatures. Bernhard Hermann founded this family business back in 1912.
Since then three successive generations have sought to continue and develop the very special art of Bear making that has given Hermann Teddy Original it's enviable reputation.
Each of our Steiff riding animals has a hand made inner steel frame, strong enough to support 330 lbs. and features solid beech wooden rockers, for quality and durability.
Hand made in England, Merrythought are England's premier soft toy makers, creating their fine toys at their teddy bear factory in Ironbridge Shropshire, since 1930!
The fabulous range of realistic animals by Kosen, are all hand made in Germany, with superb attention to detail. Many of the Kosen animals, have received highly decorated design awards, making them extremely desirable toy animals.
Many years ago, we were proud to be appointed, Steiff "Gold Button" dealer status, of which, there are only around a dozen dealers of this stature, in the UK.
We pride ourselves in offering the premium brand in the industry and always try to follow Margarete Steiff's motto, "For our children, only the best is good enough".
With this in mind, we aim to have the best available, of any brand, in childrens soft toys.Having been to the Steiff factory, we have witnessed first hand, the rigorous testing carried out by the Steiff laboratories, to acheive and lead the way, in textile safety for childrens soft toys.
Found this picture of our Angela with some 10ft grizzly bears.
The shot was taken at the Steiff factory in Giengen, Germany, when we were at the Steiff Academy.
Awesome bears and Yes, that really is Angela in the bottom right corner.
David and Angela pictured outside of their old store in Rushtons Yard, Ashby de-la Zouch, Leicestershire.
This is where Ashby Bears was established in 2001, before moving in late 2014.
Angela & Sunny
A quick comment from Dave...It is Angela's hobby which got us into Bears in the first place. I thought that having our own store would stop her buying so many bears.I was wrong!.......Dave
Showroom
OUR RELOCATION IN 2014!We are no longer a retail shop in the centre of Ashby de-la Zouch.
Our new home since 2014 is in a business centre environment.
Covid-19
Since the pandemic, we are restructuring our premises, so the showroom will remain closed until further notice, however, click and collect is available from our front reception.
Our new home since 2014 is in a business centre environment.
Covid-19
Since the pandemic, we are restructuring our premises, so the showroom will remain closed until further notice, however, click and collect is available from our front reception.
