1937 Colin Peter Kininmonth and George Grey coated Cellophane film with a natural rubber resin, creating a 'sticky tape' product, based on a French patent. They registered their product under the name Sellotape; manufacturing soon commenced[1] in Acton, West London.
1937 Adhesive Tapes Ltd was incorporated and made the tape; it later became a member of the Robinson Group of Companies
By 1962 Sellotape Ltd was a separate member of the Robinson group[2]
From the 1960s to 1980s, the Sellotape company was part of the Dickinson Robinson Group, a British packaging and paper conglomerate.
1969 Sellotape Products Ltd was doing research on carbon fibre tapes, opening up potential new markets[3]
1989 Pembridge Investments acquired DRG[4]
1997 Sellotape Industrial was bought by the Scapa Group plc, and their products continue to be manufactured at its factory in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.[5]
2002 Sellotape was bought by Henkel Consumer Adhesives.