If you manufacture temporary structures — marquees, scaffold systems, event flooring, inflatables — the ground stake is one of the few components that your end customer will continue to handle, drive, and rely on for every installation. A bent or under-specified stake doesn't just fail in the field; it reflects on the structure it was supplied with.

We work with UK and European structure manufacturers who want to specify a ground anchor with consistent material properties, predictable performance, and long-term supply continuity. If that's a conversation you'd find useful, get in touch.

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The Case for Specification

Why Manufacturers Specify Hogan Stakes

Material consistency across 75 years of production

Hogan Manufacturing has been producing professional tent stakes from Bloomington, California since 1948. The business is family-owned into its third generation, and the manufacturing specification has remained consistent across that period. High alloy steel construction, patented heat-drawn point, mill finish, dimensional specifications that meet or exceed MUTA Best Practice Guide minimums.

For a manufacturer specifying a component into your standard kit, this consistency is the point. The stake you specify today is the stake your customer receives in five years' time.

Predictable field performance

Standard mild steel stakes deform under impact when driven into hard, compacted, or rocky ground. The tip bends, the stake steers off line, and the installation underperforms its calculated holding load. For your end customer this is an operational problem; for your warranty exposure it can be a specification problem if the anchor was the limiting factor.

Hogan's heat-drawn point and high alloy steel construction produce a stake that drives straight in ground that defeats ordinary pegs, reaches full embedment depth, and extracts cleanly. More predictable holding power. Fewer field failures. Less variability across the kit you ship.

Supply continuity through a working UK partner

UK distribution and trade supply runs through Milestone Events (Yorkshire) Ltd — a working events business that uses Hogan stakes on its own marquee and event installations. Stock is held in Leeds, dispatched to your fulfilment locations on UK trade lead times.

You're sourcing from a partner that operates in the same industry you do. When you have a technical question about ground anchorage for a new structure or a specific compliance requirement, you're talking to people who have stood in the same field.

Compliance documentation for procurement and engineering

We supply structure manufacturers with the documentation procurement and engineering teams need: dimensional drawings, material specifications, holding load data referenced against the relevant standards (BS EN 13782, EN 14960, MUTA Best Practice Guide), and sample stake provision for product qualification testing.

If your specification process needs evidence, we can provide it. Get in touch with your requirements and we'll send the relevant pack.

Who We Work With

Manufacturer Segments We Supply

Marquee Manufacturers — Pole, Clearspan, Frame, Stretch, Sailcloth

A marquee manufacturer specifying stakes into a kit needs different sizes for different applications: 30in to 36in stakes for perimeter guy anchorage on pole and stretch tents, 42in to 60in for ridge pole anchors and clearspan base plates. The five-size Hogan Tiger Stakes range covers the application matrix that most marquee manufacturers ship across.

Specifying Hogan into your standard kit means your end customer can match stake size to ground condition without compromising on material — every stake in the kit performs to the same specification, regardless of size or configuration. See stake specifications by structure type for the full size-to-application reference.

Scaffold and Temporary Structure System Manufacturers

Scaffold and temporary structure systems impose specific load patterns on their ground anchorage — concentrated forces at base plate positions, lateral loading on guy positions, and high-cycle install / de-rig usage. A stake that bends on first install creates compounding problems through the working life of the kit.

Hogan stakes meet the holding load and dimensional requirements typical of scaffold and modular structure specifications. We can provide the technical documentation procurement teams need to evaluate against your existing specifications.

Event Flooring and Trackway System Manufacturers

Event flooring and trackway systems frequently anchor to ground at perimeter and joint positions to prevent lateral displacement under load. The anchor specification needs to balance holding force against the practical constraint that the system is installed and removed quickly across a high number of points.

The Hogan Tiger Stake range provides options across that balance — shorter lengths for fast installation on uniform ground, longer lengths for high-load perimeter positions or challenging ground.

Inflatable Manufacturers — Commercial Inflatables, Exhibition, Play

Inflatable manufacturers ship product into the most regulated anchoring environment in the temporary structure industry. EN 14960 specifies minimum stake diameter (16mm), minimum length (380mm), minimum holding force (163kg per anchor point), and the PIPA inspection regime tests against those minimums.

Hogan Tiger Stakes start at 26mm × 770mm — exceeding the EN 14960 minimums by a substantial margin in both dimensions. For inflatable manufacturers specifying stakes into kit for commercial hire operators, that margin is worth having on the inspection record. See the staking for inflatables guide for the full EN 14960 context.

Supply Terms

What We Provide to Specified Manufacturers

Volume pricing structure — manufacturer trade terms calibrated to your annual purchase volume and supply relationship
UK stock held in Yorkshire, dispatched to your fulfilment locations on UK trade lead times
Long-term price stability through direct manufacturer relationship and multi-year contract availability where useful
Technical documentation — dimensional drawings, material certificates, holding load data against BS EN 13782, EN 14960, MUTA Best Practice Guide
Sample stake provision for product qualification testing prior to specification
Direct technical contact for ground anchorage questions on new product development

Compliance Framework

Standards and Reference Sources

The reference framework we work within and recommend manufacturers specify against:

MUTA Best Practice Guide — UK industry minimum specifications for marquee stake dimensions and holding loads
BS EN 13782:2015 — Temporary Structures — Tents — Safety
EN 14960 — Inflatable Play Equipment safety requirements
HSE Temporary Demountable Structures Guidance
The Purple Guide — UK reference for outdoor events
IFAI Pullout Capacity Pocket Guide — International ground anchorage holding load reference

The Supply Chain

About the Supply Chain

Hogan Manufacturing Inc. — California, established 1948, third-generation family-owned. Manufactures professional tent stakes in Bloomington, California. Product range covers Tiger stakes, hook stakes, single and double head stakes, no-head stakes, and auger stakes across multiple sizes.

Milestone Events (Yorkshire) Ltd — sole UK distributor of Hogan Manufacturing products. Trading as Hogan Stakes UK. Based at Unit 1a Aire Place Mills, 143 Kirkstall Road, Leeds, LS3 1JL. Companies House 11260365, VAT GB313636324.

Milestone Events is a working events business — we plan, manage, and deliver outdoor events using temporary structures. That means our UK distribution operates from the same industry our manufacturer customers ship into. When we provide technical advice or specification guidance, it reflects operational experience as well as product knowledge. More about how we work →