Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Platers and Stampers

From Graces Guide
1938.

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1945
1947. Prestige Hollow-Ground Cutlery.
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1951
February 1954.

of Burnley, Lancashire

1936 Private company.

1948 Company made public.

c.1951 Agents for "Prestige" knives and cooking appliances (see advert)

1956 British subsidiary of Ekco Products of Chicago; the 2 companies formed closer links with Venesta by appointing the chairman of Ekco to the board of Venesta[1]

1956 Company name changed to Prestige Group in order to reflect the name of the principal product group of the company[2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Mar 23, 1956
  2. The Times, Mar 27, 1956