Frederick Cooper plc
of Wolverhampton
of Great Bridge Street, West Bromwich (1997)
1964 Frederick Robert Cooper and his wife, of Shifnal, registered Frederick Cooper (Holdings) Ltd[1]
1982 Re-registered as a public limited company
1985 Trading subsidiaries:[2]
- C. M. Steel Mills Ltd
- Cooper Coated Coil Ltd
- Cooper Handling Co Ltd
- Cooper International Ltd
- Cooper Security Products Ltd
- Cooper Technical Components Ltd
- Enniskillen Precision Engineering Ltd
- Latham Manufacturing Co Ltd
- The Cooper Horse Shoe Nail Co Ltd
- Cooper Serve B.V.
1986 Acquisitions made for the Electrical, Security and Architectural Ironmongery, Specialist Engineering, and Materials Handling divisions, although the strategy was now to acquire for the first two of these. Acquired:[3]
- D. Evans Electrical Ltd
- Comall Engineering Ltd
- Futters (London) Ltd
- Deltron Components Ltd
- Accurate Controls Ltd
1987 Acquired:[4]
- Astic Cables Ltd
- Lockart Ltd
- W. E. T. Engineering Co Ltd
- New Defiant Products Ltd
- Pioneer Box Ltd
- DD Lamson plc
- Lamson Nederland BV
and increased holding in Wilkinson Homewares to 50 percent
1990 Accurate Controls, DD Lamson and Lamson Nederland BV were sold[5]
1997 Sold Park Rubber, Hometime and Frederick Cooper Architectural Distribution
By 1997 the company was mainly a coater of coils of metal and a producer of kitchenware and also of hardware[6]
2000 Acquired Stevensons of Shipley
2003 Acquired by Tommico Ltd[7]