The brand is widely sold and marketed in the UK, South Africa, India and Malaysia as well as parts of northern Europe and east Asia.

On 31 January 1950 a celebratory dinner was held at the Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg South Africa.

The first overseas factory opened in South Africa in 1950 which was followed by a second offshore plant, this time in Canada, four years later.

Hobbs Hart & Co Ltd became a member of the Chubb Group in 1956, Chatwood-Milner Ltd in 1958 and Josiah Parkes & Sons (Holdings) Limited in 1965.

In 2000, the safes part of the company and a licence for the Chubbsafes brand was acquired by the Gunnebo Group.