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 164,598 pages of information and 246,144 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.

Wickes

From Graces Guide

Builders' merchants

1972 US company Wickes opened its first store in the UK

1986 Became a publicly quoted company in the UK

1987 Sale of the majority holding by Wickes Corporation Inc.

1988 Acquired Hunter plc

2000 Wickes plc was acquired by Focus Do It All plc

2005 Travis Perkins acquired Wickes

2015 First of the new format Wickes stores was opened

2021 Wickes plc demerged from Travis Perkins and listed on the LSE

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Sources of Information

  • [1] Company website
  • 1986 Annual report