Pentos
1972 Pentos was formed as a mini-conglomerate. Early on it bought a string of West Midlands engineering companies ...[1]
1974 Pentos bought a stake in the Bison group, hoping to build a close association between Bison and Pentos' recently acquired subsidiary Austin-Hall.[2]
c.1974 Acquired Akerman and Jeavons
1976 The revised Pentos bid for E. E. Jeavons and Co, the Tipton civil engineers and general contractors, was accepted.[3]
1977 Pentos forms new group: a major engineering group has been formed in the West Midlands by Pentos, the industrial holding company. It has created Pentos Engineering Group centred on the former Wright, Bindley and Gell company.[4]
Pentos Engineering includes the Jeavons Engineering and Jeavons Constructions firms based at Tipton, Barker and Ellis, the silver and tableware firm, and Birmingham-based Messengers and Akerman and ...[5]
1978 Pentos, the engineering to publishing and garden and leisure products group[6]
1980 Downturn for Pentos: the books-to-engineering group today reported half-year profits down from £l.2m to £602,000 and steps are being taken to reduce overheads and investment.[7]
1982 Mr Terry Maher's hard-pressed leisure to engineering group, Pentos, who have lost money for the last two years, are raising another £3.4 million by sale of Cedarwood Homes subsidiary in a management buy-out. Cedarwood own Halls Homes & Gardens .[8]
1983 Newman Tonks made a £3.8 million takeover bid for the recently-made public JEAVONS ENGINEERING. The offer has been accepted by Pentos, which owns 40% of Jeavons.[9]
1992 Owner of Athena, Ryman stationers, Wilding Office Equipment Stores and Dillons bookshops
1993 Warning by Pentos .. a substantial pre-tax loss this year. Sales were ahead of last year at Dillons bookshops, but down at ...[10]
1994 The struggling stores group, Pentos, appointed management consultant Ric Belfield as the new Managing director of its Ryman stationery business.[11]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post 02 March 1995
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post 24 July 1974
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 28 June 1976
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 11 August 1977
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 11 August 1977
- ↑ Evening News (London) 04 May 1978
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 09 September 1980
- ↑ The Scotsman 24 April 1982
- ↑ Daily Express 11 February 1983
- ↑ Shropshire Star 15 December 1993
- ↑ The Scotsman 29 March 1994