Established in 1946 by the Australian Commonwealth Government as the 'Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool' CHEP was acquired in 1958 by Brambles of Sydney, Australia.

In 1974, Brambles joined forces with the Industrial Services Division of GKN of London and together they have expanded the CHEP business across the globe.

With the exception of Australia and New Zealand (wholly owned by Brambles) and South Africa (wholly owned by GKN) the businesses are owned 50% by GKN and 50% by Brambles.

Today the CHEP name stands proud as the world leader in equipment pooling systems.

Since those early days when pallet-hire was its only business, the range of CHEP products and services has been dramatically expanded to facilitate an ever-increasing variety of pooling solutions. . . all designed to meet the diverse needs of our markets and customers around the world. Four decades on, CHEP operates in 31 countries across 6 continents, providing equipment pooling services to many diverse industries, based on 5 main product categories, which include more than 450 products globally. CHEP originated the concept of materials handling distribution services for industry, based on the pooling of a variety of products, supported by high quality services and powerful control systems.

Today, CHEP is the global market leader in supplying these high-reliability, fast-turnaround and extremely cost-effective pooling services to industry.