Redland
Redland Ltd, of Reigate
1914 Bursledon Brick Co Ltd was incorporated
1919 Manufacture of concrete roof tiles began at Doods Road, Reigate
1920 Company incorporated as Redhill Tile Co; production site moved to Kingsfield Works, Redhill
1930 Started to offer "supply and fix service"
By 1939 had plant at Syston in Leicestershire, Hensall in Yorkshire and Belfast in Northern Ireland as well as at Redhill.
WWII The Kingsfield plant was used for production of munitions
Postwar: Kingsfield developed as an engineering works, designing and building tile making plant to be used at the other factories.
1946 Acquired Moorhouse Brick, Tile and Concrete Products Co Ltd at Westerham, Kent
1946 Company name changed to Redland Tiles Ltd.
1946 Acquired the Timsbury Tile Co, at Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire, Romsey, Hants. and Runfold in Surrey.
1948 Acquired factory at Stockton-on-Tees
1950-75 Acquired several other companies (makers of roof tiles) as well as opened new factories.
1955 Bursledon Brick Co became part of Redland Holdings
1963 Rugby Portland Cement Co acquired Eastwoods Group and sold Eastwoods Ltd to Redland Holdings who sold Eastwood Cement back to Rugby Portland, including its 3 cement plants[1].
1968 New factory opened at Wigan to produce 13 million tiles a year. Plant built by Redland Engineering. Redland Holdings Ltd was renamed Redland Ltd.
1976 Redland Tiles Ltd was renamed Redland Roof Tiles Ltd
1978 Acquired Essex Group Industries Ltd with a factory at Swaffham
1979 a new factory was opened at Stanton near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk and the Vandyke works was opened on the Dri-Roof Tiles site near Leighton Buzzard.
Redland Ltd was the parent of a group of companies operating in many parts of the world. Redland Construction Materials Ltd was one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries
1981 11 factories in the UK
1981 Monopolies and Mergers Commission decided that Marley and Redland were making excessive profits on roof tiles[2].
1992 Acquired Steetley on condition that the roofing clay tile business and Steetley Refractories were sold[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Engineer of 16th August 1968 p241
- Competition Commission 1981 report [1]