Charterhouse Group
1925 Company incorporated to help finance good class businesses.[1]
1934 Public company.
1934 Acquired an interest in Spring Grove Laundries.
1938 Charterhouse Investment Trust was converted from a finance company into an investment trust, with advantages as to how it could pay dividends to shareholders; it would own the reconstituted finance company, Charterhouse Industrial Development Co, and Monument Properties Trust as well as marketable securities.[2]
1943 Acquired 80 percent of the marketable shares in Methuen and Co[3]
1949 Acquired an interest in Edmundsons Electric Co
1953 Reorganisation of the Charterhouse Group, raising additional funds.[4]
1966 With Linpac Containers acquired 35 percent of a Spanish maker of corrugated board[5]
1966 Through its subsidiary, Newage Engineers Ltd, acquired P. R. Motors
1967 Formed Charcon to hold the group's wholly-owned interests in the construction and building products industries[6]
1971 Formed Ventas Distribution Ltd to hold its electrical equipment wholesalers.
1982 Led a consortium which acquired 90 percent of Coloroll[7]
1982 Leader of a consortium which acquired a large part of the shareholding of F. W. Woolworth and Co; there was no property companies or retail groups in the consortium; it announced it had no intention of asset stripping.[8]
1984 Management buyout of 9 industrial companies, including Coloroll and Newage Transmissions, from Charterhouse Group; the companies were put together in a new company called Paragon[9]