Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
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Caradon
From Graces Guide
1985 Reed Building Products Division was bought-out of Reed International; one of its subsidiaries was Twyfords
1987 Public company incorporated[1]. Supplier of bathroom and building products. Four main brands[2]:
- Twyfords - including Curran and Storm Doors
- Mira - including Trisave Boilers
- Terrain
- Celuform
- as well as the plastics division - including Rolinx, Elliott, L&P, Westwood, British Optical.
1988 Acquired Meynell Valves and Meynell Showers[3]. Acquired Everest window makers, from RTZ[4]
1993 Acquired RTZ's Pillar Division[6]
2000 Caradon proposed to sell some of its subsidiaries in order to concentrate on its "intelligent building systems division". The plumbing division (including Mira Showers and Twyford Bathrooms) was sold to HSBC Private Equity and the cheque printing division was being lined up for sale; the aluminium extrusions might also be sold. The name of the company would be changed to Novar, the name of the North American systems division[7]