About Us
Charley Chau is an award-winning British business that was founded in 2010 by sisters Christine and Jenny Chau, inspired by our Italian Greyhounds. We’re experts in creating luxury dog beds that deliver supreme canine-comfort, beautiful styling and unbeatable performance over time.
Christine and Jenny, co-founders with Mabel, Tino, Charley (who the company is named after) and Anna - our first four Italian Greyhounds. Meet the Team >
When we sat on the sitting room floor one afternoon in 2010, hand-sewing a Snuggle Bed for Charley and Anna, we had no idea that it would literally change our lives forever. We had “proper” jobs back then, both working in the city – Christine was running marketing, events and sponsorship for the Mayor of London and Jenny was working for Goldman Sachs - but we set-up Charley Chau as a quirky little hobby, designing beds and popping along to a few shows here and there with our tiny collection.
Anna in one of our early Snuggle Bed prototypes - the Snuggle Bed was the bed that launched Charley Chau and today there are thousands of dogs sleeping in their original Charley Chau Snuggle Beds all over the world.
By 2012, our quirky little hobby was taking up a lot of time and we decided that we had to either take it seriously or close it down because it would soon demand more time that we could free up around our other jobs. We took a huge leap of faith and left our city careers behind. Goodbye steady income and welcome to trying to make something of a tiny, boot-strapped business.
We have never looked back ... we have appeared in a BBC TV series, Charley Chau beds have been featured by some of the glossiest titles in the world from Vogue to Elle Deco and even the FT’s ‘How To spend It’ and many, many more, and in 2019 we were named Family Business Entrepreneurs of the Year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.
Family Business Entrepreneurs of the Years at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2018. Christine having just accepted the award on behalf of her and Jenny.
We are so incredibly lucky to be able to do something that we love, and to have our dogs with us every day. Our Italian Greyhounds continue to inspire everything we do – every single bed and blanket in the Charley Chau collection has been inspired by one of our gang. And while we are obviously complete sighthound addicts, our collection is designed for all breeds of dogs at all life stages – it just happens that our gang also make rather stunning models and so you will see them all over this website.
Christine and Brutus in the ring at Crufts - product testers for Charley Chau, top dog models for our website, and top show dogs too. Brutus made history when he became the first and still only Italian Greyhound to gain a US Champion title in one single day of competition, and he was the top Italian Greyhound in the UK in 2023 and top male IG in 2024. Our handsome boy!
Today, Charley Chau has happy customers in over 60 countries around the world. Our minds still boggle when we think about how far we’ve come, how many friends we’ve made through Charley Chau, and all the beautiful dogs who are sleeping soundly in their Charley Chau’s all over the globe.
We don’t design for anyone else, and every Charley Chau is made to our exact standards. Supreme canine comfort, gorgeous styling and unbeatable performance over time – our customers expect and deserve nothing less.
Charley Chau continues to be a dream come true for two crazy dog ladies and we can only thank our customers and other friends from the bottom of our hearts for all the support that they have given us over the years - thank you!
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