Ibstock Building Products
Ibstock Brick and Tile Co., maker of bricks and similar building products, of Ibstock.
1899 Ibstock Collieries Ltd was incorporated to take over the collieries and brick and pipe manufacturers previously carried on by Ibstock Colliery Co Ltd[1]
1927 Started to manufacture tiles
1929 The collieries were closed
1935 The company name was changed to Ibstock Brick and Tile Co Ltd
1939 Ceased manufacturing tiles
1950s A decade of expansion; the company promoted the use of bricks to architects and specifiers, selling bricks as an architectural item rather than just as a commodity.
1963 Acquired Himley Brick Co Ltd
1963 Became a public company. The company made facing bricks (both machine-made and handmade) and salt glazed sanitary pipes and fittings; the clay is obtained from the company's own pits at Ibstock; fireclay bought from local sources. Public offer of shares.
c1965 Purchased Aldridge and Burwell Brick, with gault clay works near Cambridge.
1966 Ibstock purchased Shawell Precast and started sticking brick slips onto a concrete backing.
1967 Ibstock purchased Superbrix Limited, an unsuccessful venture into calcium silicate brick manufacture.
1970 Ibstock Brick and Tile Co Ltd was subject to reverse take-over by unquoted Johnsen, Jorgensen and Wettre to form Ibstock Johnsen[2]
Manufacturer of facing bricks.
1971 Bought Roughdales, which had recently invested in two new factories in St Helens.
1972 Ibstock acquired Nostell Brick and Tile Works and a brickworks at Pelaw and also bought Cattybrook and its quarry at Shortwood. By now Ibstock’s brick capacity was up to 200 million per annum.
1976 Acquired Hudsons Group, with factories at West Hoathly and Laybrook and a site at Horam.
c.1982 Take-over bids were made by London Brick and by Redland but neither proceeded to completion.
1994 Dropped the "Johnsen" part of the name, indicating the company's intention to exit the pulp products part of the business[3]
Renamed Ibstock Building Products
1995 Acquired the brick making assets of Tarmac, which included the Westbrick business, in the South West, the Nottingham Brick business at Dorket Head, as well as the Innes Lee and Severn Valley brickworks.
1996 Acquired Redland Brick[4] (the former Redland and Steetley brick businesses)
Ibstock acquired the assets of the adjoining Ellistown brickworks to consolidate its position of one third of the brick capacity in the UK.
By the end of 1998 the paper pulp interests had finally been sold and the Irish building materials group, CRH, made a successful takeover bid for the company, valuing it at £376m. This involved the integration of Forticrete, the CRH concrete products and rooftile business into the Ibstock Group
Ibstock acquired the assets of the adjoining Ellistown brickworks to consolidate its position of one third of the brick capacity in the UK. By the end of 1998 the paper pulp interests had finally been sold and the Irish building materials group, CRH, made a successful takeover bid for the company, valuing it at £376m. This involved the integration of Forticrete, the CRH concrete products and rooftile business into the Ibstock Group.
2005 CRH sold the group to Bain Capital. Brands included Ibstock, Glen-Gery, Ibstock-Kevington, Supreme, Forticrete and Anderton
Ibstock Building Products employed over 2400 people in the UK and US, with 49 clay, concrete and speciality manufacturing plants. They produced many of the building and cladding components essential for new housebuilding, refurbishment and non-housing projects. With annual sales in excess of £420 million, Ibstock Building Products is one of the largest heavyweight building material producers for the UK construction industry.
2015 Ibstock was quoted on the London Stock Exchange again.