REC Active was a daff brain child of mine and my good friend Jonny.
We started it in the summer after secondary school. We always wanted to work on something together and I had this sitting in the idea bank for a rainy day.
The idea was simply to have a niche men’s legging brand.
At the time no one was doing this… we thought we would give it a shot.
We sourced the leggings from china town, designed packaging, had a photoshoot, built a Shopify store and started selling.
The margins were decent.
The packaging was cool and postage-efficient but we both got busy. We didn’t care enough.
Surprisingly I didn’t think it was a very cool biz and with a few sales and little effort, we let it die.
Another terrible but also genius business idea – it got me going!
Reuben McFeeters 