[citation needed] The company is headquartered in Hatton Garden, London,[2] operating out of a 30,000 sq foot high-security refinery in Beckton[3] and an international branch in Singapore.

[5][6] The company's founder Antony Stephen Baird was born in 1942 at the family ancestral home in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Shortly, after World War II, the family moved to London and he began bartering coins at school.

By the mid-70s Tony had established a permanent office in Stratford and would often drive to Switzerland in his E-Type Jaguar to collect thousands of gold coins.

[18] Baird & Co. became an official distributor of The Royal Mint in 2016 and were winners of the Queen's Enterprise Award for Business in the international trade category in 2018.